Word: magic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN YOU FIRST see Nikolais Dance Theater, you're determined to see through the troupe's stunts. The company, appearing at Brandeis this past weekend, stages a magic lantern show: one minute the proscenium is an expanse of bold color stripes, the next a field of white pin-points of light. Even when you remind yourself that it's all stagecraft, you're still astounded--it's hard to believe that one man, Alvin Nikolais, could choreograph score, costume and light such intricate theater works...
...absolute center of Florida is the Magic Kingdom of Disney World. In this well-designed universe, built for Carter's new crusade, incongruity is eliminated. Photographers there find it hard to catch anything off-guard, because it is so well-planned. Even J.H. Bigham ("a cripple like yourself") wouldn't have any trouble getting around or getting "the best cuts of meat, etc." In the center of Mouseville is the hall of the American presidents where 38 life-sized electronic dummies nod and fold and unfold arms while the Battle Hymn of the Republic plays on the sound system...
Ironically, amid all this bullish news the stock market last week resoundingly failed to pierce the magic 1,000 mark on the Dow Jones industrial average. For three days prices hovered just below that point, reaching 996 at midday Thursday; then sell orders flooded the New York Stock Exchange. The average tumbled 23 points the last two days, to close the week...
...would put anything incriminating-or even refreshingly outspoken-on paper nowadays? In addition, the copier's ability to turn confidential communications into bestsellers has encouraged memo drafters everywhere to strive for blandness. Says Professor Anthony Athos of the Harvard Business School: "When the writer knows that through the magic of Xerox many people will see what he has written, then it loses the sharp cutting edge and gains what I call administrative opacity. What we have is a proliferation of blah, blah, blah...
...Profit is today a fighting word," he said, adding that, "profits are the lifeblood of the economic system," and the "magic elixir" on which economic progress depends...