Word: magically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Heresy or Obscenity. Ever since St. Paul's new converts at Ephesus burned their old magic books,* the church has waged war against books that might damage the faith or morals of its communicants. Pope Pius IV issued the first Index in 1564. A Congregation of the Index was established at the Vatican seven years later, with the sole job of judging what books were dangerous enough to be forbidden...
...takes something more than the drugstore magic of the ordinary historical novel to wake the dead. Once in a long while a writer finds the prescription, and brings the past to life in a fine historical novel. This week one of the best in many a month is being published...
...Yankees are still the Yankees, however, and can't be discounted. With rookies and yearlings all over the infield and outfield, the Bombers still have an up-the-middle combination of Berra, McDouglad, and Rizzuto along with three of the best pitchers in the game. Casey Stengel's magic may well pull them in first for the fourth straight year...
...Author-Director Alexander (Tight Little Island) Mackendrick: the series of explosions as the oblivious chemist experiments with his weird test-tube apparatus; the harassed high financiers embroiled in low comedy; the inventor walking off, Chaplin-like, at the fadeout, presumably to continue his single-minded quest for the magic fabric...
...play thereafter cannot evoke its meaning through its mood, or even sustain its mood. It becomes a half-farcical, half-melodramatic vaudeville, and its people finally go home less changed themselves than as though changes of character awaited them there. There is less a failure of logic than of magic, which is the more pronounced since the production-in Virgil Thomson's atmospheric music and Cecil Beaton's almost oppressively charming sets-so much stresses the fairy-tale note...