Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forest-girt village of Kirawara, 48 miles north of Nairobi, an awe-struck crowd of 2,000 Kikuyu tribesmen squatted in the market place amid green bananas and calabash gourds, clapping their hands to their mouths to signify their proper respect for "Big Magic." A spindly-legged youth, thought to be a hopeless deaf-mute, had suddenly started prophesying that "God would arrive in Kirawara at one o'clock." Attracted by the commotion, a British-led patrol of Kenya's African police came crashing through the jungle, intent on arresting the prophet as a mouthpiece...
...become the farmer's Christmas dinner. Wilbur's hard plight-considered first too puny, then too appetizing to live-excites the pity of a spider, who spins over his sty such complimentary words as SOME PIG, TERRIFIC, RADIANT and HUMBLE. The farmer is so impressed by these magic signs that he spares Wilbur, who lives fattily ever after. Author White (who lives on his own Maine farm) also does a fine job on farmyard life as seen through the eyes of geese and sheep, and reaches his peak with a scurrilous rat named Templeton who, like Satan...
...harsh world of Central Park, where he undergoes such painful experiences as being chased by a whippet and overhearing a chat between two humans on how to cook hasenpfeffer. Winthrop chums up with other park animals, and together they create a typical Bemelmans mixture in a world of magic which is entered, naturally and easily, "at 104th Street and Central Park West...
...MAGIC LANTERN (504 pp.)-Robert Carson-Holt...
...division), mean old financiers with moist-eyed granddaughters, fading stars, grasping agents, gossip columnists, and other native life of the celluloid jungle. Dub in a score of documentary asides on 20 pre-talkie years of motion-picture history, focus on the printed page, and the nickering result is The Magic Lantern, Author Robert Carson's 504-page formula for the great Hollywood novel and the Book-of-the-Month Club's choice for December...