Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mulele's men, who called themselves the Jeunesse, were fired by a strange mixture of leftist dogma and African magic, which they used time and again to put the superstitious Congolese National Army to flight. With shouts of Mulele mai (Water of Mulele), they threw themselves into battle, convinced that bullets fired at them would turn to water. Eventually the rebellion collapsed, partly because the Congolese army grew somewhat more efficient, partly because the geographical isolation of Kwilu province made it impossible for Mulele to replace the bows and poisoned arrows of his followers with modern weapons. Last week...
...must have taken something more than editorial candor to include the Essay on black magic in the same issue as a leading story on George Wallace [Sept. 27]. The increased attraction to irrational solutions to our current social problems so prevalent among the American electorate this year is nowhere greater than in the supporters of Wallace. It makes me shudder to think that a politician with his lack of originality could draw such a sizable following. Or perhaps 13.5 million adult Americans can't be wrong. Perhaps, as I enter the voting booth this November, I should close...
...golden hair still swooped provocatively over one eye, her skintight, beaded gown glittered as brightly as ever, and if her face had begun to show her 66 years, her voice remained full of the old husky magic. Indeed, when Marlene Dietrich returned to Broadway for a six-week engagement, the only thing that was different from last year's show was the opening number, a torchy ballad called Look Me Over Closely. Not that anybody in the theater waits for her invitation...
...More pervasive magic: ESP. The four characters are aware of certain approaching events. They anticipate initial and crucial points of connection, almost as if they were manipulated by a larger force. Which is, in fact, the case. Witch of Changes, mixing her patterns, for what...
...purpose here is to insist that 3 Sisters does not march. It is not a murder mystery, although someone is murdered. No one is apprehended, nothing is resolved. The final statements are made in silence.)...involve us in seeing the moments. You will find that as the black magic and deathly wonders slide overhead, the characters are nevertheless human...