Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Enwonwu's ancestors carved for magic purposes, not for exhibition. They gave force to their whittled gods by using many of the tricks of modern art: violent distortion of figures into angular cubistic shapes, mingling of naturalistic features with wholly abstract ones, the surrealist shock-value of giving vaguely human figures some of the attributes of animals and birds. The results struck at least one art historian, Roger Fry, as "great sculpture-greater, I believe, than any we have made...
...trial was a failure; Vonnegut's commercial silver iodide was too impure. He tried again with a few specks of pure silver iodide, which he evaporated from an electrically heated wire. At once the captive cloud in his cold chamber turned into snow. The merest smidge of the magic iodide seemed to be enough...
...from politics. Even after São Paulo's bumptious Governor Adhemar de Barros named him for a presidential comeback (TIME, June 26), Getulio sat on quietly at Itu. As election day (Oct. 3) got closer, the hottest Brazilian political question was whether Getulio still had his old magic, and whether he cared to practice it. Last week Brazilians found...
Visitors this summer even smoked Mozart cigarettes, munched Mozart pumpernickel. There were performances in the Festspielhaus and the open-air Rocky Riding School, not quite up to snuff, of Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute. But last week the first postwar performance of the late Richard Strauss's last opera edged Mozart momentarily out of the spotlight...
...Magic & Mandolins. Country boys stared at the sleazy magic of television; city Scouts complained to 34 aid stations of bumps, sprains and poison ivy. To Louisiana Scouts, the British served tea. Other Southerners saw a kilted Scot amiably explaining cricket to a khaki-clad young Negro. Austrians made music with mandolins; bagpipes whined shrilly from a pup tent...