Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barbara in Bahia. In the city, Ze's wife Rosa is seduced by a sneering pimp. Next morning a vindictive priest refuses to let Ze enter the church, scorning his promise to the saint as a pagan vow made through an intermediary god at a macumba ceremony. "Black magic," cries the priest. Ze shakes his head sadly. "My church has no image of Santa Barbara." He is a Catholic, what else matters? The subtle dangers of syncretism are beyond him. He will wait...
...Reason to Fight. That is obviously the magic the U.S. needs in Southeast Asia. The staggering U.S. task is not only to order the Red guerrillas back into their holes. Americans are told on all sides that they must give Southeast Asia's people something to fight for, some overwhelming reason why a poor, semiliterate population, ignorant of political freedom and without a smattering of political philosophy, should be ready to die fighting Communism. In effect, this is asking the U.S. to create new, viable societies-which the French notably failed to do during their rule. And the French...
Cheever's kind of imagination carries practical penalties. If it has not been engaged in any event, it ceases to exist for him. Untouched by the magic of fable, whole areas of experience have disappeared. This includes an early walking tour of Europe with his brother Fred. Today Cheever unaffectedly cannot remember the countries he was in. "I suppose I was in France or Germany or some place," he says, brushing off the subject forever...
...magic of the imagination redeems life: "Art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of choice, but in a world that changes more swiftly than we can perceive there is always the danger that our powers of selection will be mistaken and that the vision we serve will come to nothing. We admire decency and we despise death, but even the mountains seem to shift in the space of a night and perhaps the exhibitionist at the corner of Chestnut and Elm streets is more significant than the lovely...
...newest wrinkle in the $2.5 billion cosmetics business is a lotion that camouflages the creases in a woman's face. Last month Helene Curtis got a lead on the market by rushing out its Magic Secret lotion. This week Coty begins shipping LineAway. In May, RevIon will release Liqui-Lift; other unwrinklers will come soon after from Helena Rubinstein, Max Factor and Del Russo of Miami. In the boudoir-and on Wall Street-the lotions look like the biggest thing cosmetically since the royal-queen-bee-jelly fad depleted pocketbooks in the mid-1950s...