Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early in the campaign the Republicans staked out "peace, progress and prosperity" as their most powerful argument for Ike's reelection. Democrats replied that the Republicans merely want to keep things as they are, and proclaimed that they saw no magic in the G.O.P. promise. Last week Vice President Richard Nixon, barnstorming through the West and Midwest on a sweeping 32-state, 15,000-mile tour, took a G.O.P. handhold on the future...
After that, the growing drama of the boy's unhappy betrothal to a human girl is developed through the dancers' fingertips-pointing at the eyes to indicate tears, at the forehead for mystification, at the ceiling to swear by all that's holy, etc. There are magic veils, palm reading and plots until the sylph's little wings drop off and, faltering as if blind, she dies. When, amid all this fabulizing, they get a chance to dance, the Danes are light on their toes-as if the stage were covered with foam rubber-and their...
Green Seaweed. Choreographer Bournonville's other big ballet of the week, Napoli, was only a few years younger (1842), had even more pantomime as well as one long actful of leaps and turns. It also contained a memorable little piece of stage magic that delighted New York City audiences as if they were children at their first puppet show. When Teresina (Kirsten Ralov) is turned into a naiad, she kneels in a pink gown, then suddenly stands up dressed in green seaweed. Later, with as little fanfare and in full view, she suddenly switches back to pink...
Under terms of the Geneva agreement, departing French troops took thousands of Vietnamese wives and children with them. Mixed-blood Vietnamese who stayed behind suddenly found that the magic of being a metis had disappeared with the French. Instead of privileged citizens, they became foreigners who themselves had to be assimilated. Those who had held good jobs under the French administration found that the Vietnamese government would hire them-at a low salary-only if they forfeited their French citizenship. With the exodus of French firms, it became difficult for them to find any sort of work. Premier Diem signed...
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