Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...authors. With a lot of luck, they might join the seven Kirshner teams earning big money. The luckiest team right now is Barry Mann, 26, and his wife Cynthia Weil, 24, who wrote Soul and Inspiration as well as Kicks (No. 10 on the Hot 100) and Magic Town (No. 32); the Manns have just signed a five-year $1,000,000 contract with Kirshner...
...Downing Street sports a Yorkshire accent, a working-class attitude and a tolerance toward the young that includes Pop Singer "Screaming" Lord Sutch, who ran against him on the Teen-Age Party ticket in the last election. Mary Quant, who designs those clothes, Vidal Sassoon, the man with the magic comb, and the Rolling Stones, whose music is most In right now, reign as a new breed of royalty. Disks by the thousands spin in a widening orbit of discotheques, and elegant saloons have become gambling parlors. In a once sedate world of faded splendor, everything new, uninhibited and kinky...
...pink stucco Disney Productions studio, no fewer than three full-length movie features were being edited and scored, and two new TV shows were in production for the 1966-67 season. At the Glendale proving ground, architects, engineers and "imagineers" are developing an addition to his "Magic Kingdom" (Disneyland) that will cost more than the entire original $17 million investment. Also in the works are plans for 1) Mineral King, in California's High Sierra, which, upon opening in 1976, will become one of the world's largest ski centers, and 2) Disney World...
...jamboree atop Mount Parnassus, where the Negroes attack the Fascists in their meeting-tent, then rape and murder the sister. The hero escapes to go home to pamphleteer in the cause of tolerance, and to get himself happily married. "The answer to everything," he concludes, is contained "within the magic of reciprocal love." Author Benedictus' discursive, Edwardian elegance of style is amusingly suited to satirizing upper-class pretentiousness, but his Negro characters are simply stereotypes and his twittering wittiness collapses at last into sentimentality...
Since 1952, Malamud has write five books. His most recent novel, Idiots First, was first published in 1963. Two years before he wrote A New Life, a story about a New Yorker teaching in the West. In 1958, Malamud's Magic Barrel, a book of short stories about Jews searching for a lost past, won the National Book Award. The Natural, a book about a baseball player, appeared in 1952, and was followed in 1957 by The Assistant, a novel about a shoemaker...