Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like a young prizefighter," wrote the New York Times's James Reston, "toying gracefully with his opponent, jabbing at will and casually waving to the crowd, when suddenly he was clipped on the chin. This has hurt him badly. The magic of the first two months has vanished." For President John F. Kennedy, it seemed that more than the magic had vanished-so had many of his most loyal rooters among the press...
...Jean Genet by Bernard Frechtman) finds the most trenchant of French avant-gardists once more leading his own fierce assault on his own unyielding terms. Avantgarde, with Genet, is in part millenniums-old ancien regime. His originality rests on the very origins of theater, on ritual and ceremony, magic and masks; his modernity lies in how he reshapes, distorts, sophisticates, extends hem. Of all this The Blacks-a white nan's often extraordinary venture into Negro fantasy and psychology-is strong-y compacted...
...another narrative device, the blind Captain Cat (Nick Carrera) has exactly that power; Alexander Macmillan works a little simple magic with the Reverend Eli Jenkins sunrise and sunset poems; and Newell Flather as Nogood Boyo, Dai Bread, Utah Watkins, and Sinbad is consistently, wonderfully funny...
...Broadway Carnival! The magic world of a Continental circus comes alive in this pleasant and colorful reprise of the movie Lili. Anna Maria Alberghetti sings engagingly as the waif and Jerry Orbach is a deft puppetmaster, but nimble Pierre Olaf tops the show in a jubilant dance...
...FLEET MODERNIZATION. "We cannot go on hoping that someone is going to wave a magic fiscal wand to modernize our aging fleet. We must find ways to build ships more cheaply, while at the same time expressing our needs more clearly. Perhaps the answer lies in less sophisticated ships-or more ships of exactly similar design. We cannot hope to embody in each ship and aircraft all of the improvements that our technical laboratories can dream up. If we did so, a ship would never go to sea, because our technical progress is neverending. We must consider the cost...