Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Oct. 6 review of The Magic Box, William Friese-Greene becomes, in your words, "British cinema's pioneer" (which over here means that he introduced cinema to Britain); and The Magic Box "shows . . . his development of Britain's first practical movie camera in 1889, at about the same time that Thomas Edison in the U.S. and Louis Le Prince in France were perfecting their cameras...
...goes on: "Most of the magic advertised by psychiatry, some of what passes for psychoanalysis, much of clinical psychology, all of religion, and a good deal of the less pretentious arts of medicine and social service, is based upon a cult of passivity and surrender." The Apostle Paul, Lindner complains, took Jesus' rebellious creed and made of it a soporific distillation which has "softened the muscles of resistance to exploitation...
...conditions of men, making the regiment a symbol of the church militant in which he believes. Apart from Guy, none of the newer officers is a devout man, and most of them are intellectual mediocrities at best. But to Waugh -and to the reader, after Waugh has waved his magic wand of characterization -mediocrity seems not only a human condition but a fascinating one. The only trouble with it is that it is incapable of leading a Crusade-a job which Waugh turns over to one of his most scintillating creations, Brigadier Ben Ritchie-Hook...
Pearls will be worn--not only for social functions, but to dress up a sweater and skirt for classroom wear. What's more, the sweater will fit. The untidy, form-concealing pullover is as passe as the high-button shoe. The skirt may be one of the magic orions, which never lost their pleats. And no sneakers...
Stevenson has joined in spreading the illusion that the Depression was caused by Republican incompetence and wiped out by the magic of FDR. This is at least a gross oversimplification. He has accused the Republicans of advocating military weakness; yet there has been no more persistent advocate of a realistic arms program than Henry Cabot Lodge, to whom Ike owes his nominations. Stevenson claims that corruption in government is primarily the fault of the voters. Such specious reasoning is not forthrightness. His argument will be true only if the voters endorse the corrupt administration at the polls...