Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greater magician who has cast his spell upon the entire world-Walt Disney. Indeed, not since the Age of Fable, not since Mage Merlin and Lob-Lie-by-the-Fire has such power of pixilation been granted as this son of North Chicago carries in his thumb. From the magic hand of Disney has come hippety-hoppeting, tippety-squeaketing, quackety-racketing the most cheerful plague of little animals that has ever been visited on humankind...
Haiti's Enguérrand Gourgue specializes in pictures of black magic, painted in a silk-smooth, sharply detailed manner. His Marine Landscape is a nightmare spread of swimming things with animal and human heads. In a highly authoritative book on Haiti out last week (Haiti: the Black Republic; Devin-Adair; $5), Critic Rodman rightly says that Gourgue, like Bigaud, "can be called a primitive only in terms of his origins and lack of formal training. If, as he now tells clients, Gourgue was tormented by demons until he painted them, he has a good and very convincing memory...
...disease and illiteracy are not inevitable-is spreading like fiery crosses among folk who for centuries have remained apathetic to advance. Having emancipated themselves from colonialism, millions of human beings are consumed by an aching need to pull themselves up from economic servitude. They look to "industrialization" as a magic panacea...
Elgin Hour (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Judith Anderson in Yesterday's Magic...
...real wages of many workers in Rio shrank within the past five years, as beef soared from 9 cruzeiros a kilogram in 1950 to 46 today, butter from 34 to no. One of the odder symptoms of mass discontent is the mushroom growth of umbanda or espiritismo, a white-magic religious cult with elaborate African rituals. There were 75,000 registered espiri-tistas in Rio in 1949, 124,000 in 1950; today there are some 400,000, and the national total runs into millions...