Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...makes a running and usually ironic comment on the action. He tells his story in subtle cadences of closeups ("What interests me is the face"), letting his camera move surely, sensitively with the flow of feeling and expression. There is a kind of stillness sometimes even in violence, a magic even in the commonplace...
...Dine's The Magic Room is a shocking-pink and green affair with bedsprings hanging from the ceiling and an umbrella protruding from the wall, with cardboard signs reading, "Breakfast Is Ready," "Go to Work," and "Why Can't We Be Friends?" Dine calls these "phrases you hear around any household. I wanted to show the violence of a home...
Return of the Native. In 1929, fierce, bearded Jomo Kenyatta, wild-eyed Kikuyu spokesman and student of telepathy, magic spells and Kikuyu lore, journeyed to London to demand the white man's land and political rights for his people. After 15 years in London and two in Moscow, he returned to Kenya to set up a network of bush schools, which spread antiwhite propaganda and upheld such barbaric Kikuyu rites as female circumcision,* which the missionaries and government officials had tried to stop. District officers stumbled onto fanatic ritual meetings in forest clearings. Later, word spread that tens...
Died. Zora Neale Hurstoh, 57, Florida-born Negro author who explored the world of Negro folklore and magic in remote parts of the South and the West Indies, celebrated the big trials and small triumphs of the Southern Negro in a series of novels (Jonah's Gourd Vine, Seraph on the Suwanee) without succumbing to bitterness; in Fort Pierce...
...Digest's scattergun criticism, the weighty economic report and Douglas' crusade against the plutogogues shattered any Republican dreams of coasting home in 1960 on the magic carpet of widely shared U.S. wellbeing. A major debate on the economy was abuilding; before it was ended, the G.O.P. might be hard pressed to prove that prosperity is more satisfying than Democratic promises...