Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Church defilement has lately become an occupational hazard of village vicars; England seems to be in the midst of a mild little revival of black magic. Recently, the Rev. J. L. Head of St. Clements at Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, found a sheep's heart stuck with 13 thorns on the grave of a woman believed to have been a witch. On All Souls' Eve, gravestones were overturned and hexes traced on the graveyard of the parish church in Appleton, Berkshire...
Parliament removed witchcraft from the list of criminal offenses in 1736. Since then, the black arts have been the property of tiny demonic cults. But 1963, for no clear reason, has been a banner year for sorcerers. In March the pro-Labor New Statesman concluded that "black magic seems to be strongest in southern England and, New Statesman readers will hear with relief, in Conservative constituencies." Last month, a Conservative M.P., Commander John Kerans, asked the government for new laws against the spread of witchcraft, arguing that "a good deal of it is a cover for sexual orgies and other...
...Horn Bull. A Uruguayan by birth, Frasconi worked as an illustrator and political cartoonist until he could get his "magic paper"-a scholarship to the Art Students League that brought him to the U.S. in 1945. Over the years after that, his clean-lined, brightly colored prints of California lettuce pickers and Fulton Market fish packers, plus his portraits of such literary figures as Bertolt Brecht and Sean O'Casey, won him a reputation as a wizard of the woodcut...
...Palestine, Glueck recognized at once the magic of Albright's system. For three years he served as his professor's pottery man, labeling, studying and endlessly discussing every potsherd from Albright's excavations. He acquired an uncanny feeling for these humble trifles. He could tell at a glance whether a fragment came from a Nabataean water bottle or a cooking pot from the days of Joshua. He still has this ability, and when he picks up a potsherd, he handles it as tenderly as a Chinese esthete caressing a piece of jade. "Pottery...
...course the really clever, or the very rich, can keep on going to school until they have passed the magic age of 26, beyond which practically no one is drafted. Thousands of students are, in fact, populating our graduate institutions with little motivation other than of escaping the government's summons. And now marriage has been added to the list of plots by which the unwilling can avoid the discomfort of serving in the military...