Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kenzo Okada has-at the age of 60-a secret, invisible, inexhaustible and almost magic source of images for his painting: memories of his dreams when he was young. He seems to have forgotten most of his wakeful activities-instead he recalls that in Tokyo his life "was lonely and full of dreams," and during his student days in Paris, "I fell in love with a different girl every day, and mostly I dreamed." Last week a collection of Okada's dreams was on display at M.I.T.'s Hayden Library in Cambridge, Mass. In style and approach, Okada...
...unfrocked fink"? In one of his July columns, Mr. Frazier wrote: "Mantle has such grit and gallantry as to suffuse the summery sarabands of baseball with so singular a splendor." The column ends with: "I would that my sons grow up to have the frankincense and myrrh of such magic." Please explain...
Psilocybin is a chemical synthesis of the active component in a Mexican mushroom which is used in Indian magic rites...
...pretty soon you realize that this straight-faced world is slightly magic around the edges. Evil is a man in a striped suit and derby hat who tries to destroy dreams. He is a dictatorial mayor and selfish capitalist and doesn't believe that Sandcastle Pier is a boat. Of course it is. We registered it under the laws of the new country of Liberama. And it makes so many people happy that...
...schoolboy hero of Buchan's The Magic Walking Stick finds a cane that, properly twirled by the owner, twirls him from the doldrums of home to far-off times and places. In The House of the Four Winds (which along with Castle Gay is part of a trilogy about a retired Glasgow grocer named Dickson McCunn), Buchan plunks assorted Britons smack dab in the middle of a palace revolution in Evallonia, a small, turbulent European state north by east from Ruritania...