Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is a magic in Riesman's book, an appeal to those who have read it, that insists on recognition. There is something more here than the phrase-maker and the occasionally able writer. It is not, Eric Larrabee to the contrary, that Riesman directly exposes his readers to the workings of a brilliant mind. And the difficulties are not explained by Larrabee's thesis that, "The Lonely Crowd is like many other books that have permanently changed men's minds. They begin, while the ideas they contain are fresh, by being incomprehensible; and they end, after the ideas have...
...ills, agreement on the smaller points opens the way for the lines to seek solutions to the weightier problems also discussed by Boyd and the presidents. Both sides recognized that the single most pressing problem is overcompetition. Boyd favors mergers to eliminate wasteful competition. Says he: "There is no magic number of U.S. airlines to ensure competition." Some airline presidents prefer an orderly cutting back of over-competition on key routes, which are sometimes flown by as many as eight airlines-with most of the planes hardly half-full. Says one president: "We should divert the half-filled jets...
...recluse (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948) who lives in Mexico and writes masterly proletarian novels and short stories, the legend has been transformed by two gifted Mexicans, Director Roberto Gavaldon and Cameraman Gabriel Figueroa, into a fragile but profound little picture that abounds and delights in the black-and-white magic of the magic lantern...
...reputed to have more women by the month than any known man,'' elderly Effie, who had three ghosts (a poltergeist, Thomas De Quincey, and a half-man, half-beast), and Flora Massingham, "as fat and pink as a pig at Christmas," who took him to see a magic show where a young woman was really sawed in half. "I said: 'Well, what's the explanation?' Flora Massingham said: 'there isn't any explanation. He just saws them in two. He has a different young woman every week.' Someone screamed and was told...
...aesthetic of this bizarre novel, smells and textures and tastes, has a unique quality. For example, Peterson and the fly both consider merde the most understandable word in the French language. "Renew'd by ordure's sympathetic force,/As oil'd with magic juices for the course,/Vigorous he rises." If you can first conjure up a combination of Rabelais and Kenneth Tynan, and then tone your image down a little, you may get an idea of Sidney Peterson's writing...