Word: magicianly
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...named president of Bogotá's University of the Andes. Two years ago he resigned the university job to lead the opposition to Dictator Rojas. Before his own acceptance last week, Lleras had ruefully spelled out the qualifications for a Colombian president. He must be, said Lleras, "a magician, prophet, redeemer, savior and pacifier who can transform a ruined republic into a prosperous one, can make the prices of the things we export rise and the value of the things we consume drop." As the May 4 election date drew near, Colombians seemed convinced that Lleras...
Leroy Birch (nickname: Magician), 19, Negro, came from a broken home, lived with grandparents. Acknowledged as "counselor" for the younger boys, he advised the gang on strategy, denied participating in the murder...
...succession of cavernous, shuttered rooms until a door opened into a brilliant drawing room lit by 20 candles. Here sat Emilie, Marquise du Chatelet, surrounded by scientific instruments and glittering "with diamonds like an operatic Venus." Above, "weaving spells" at the head of a secret staircase, sat "the Magician" who was Emilie's lover, the notorious M. de Voltaire. When a bell announced suppertime, the company gathered in a dining room devoid of servants, ate "exquisite" food and wine that was pushed into the room through a hatch. At the ringing of another bell, "moral and philosophical readings" began...
...which thankless jobs abound, perhaps the most thankless--and most precarious-- of all is that of head football coach in an Ivy League college. Caught between the Ivy Towers of intellectualism and the plush clubrooms of old-gradism, the football coach must be something of a magician to endure for any length of time...
...fresh eggs. Vickrey paints in egg tempera, needs one egg yolk for each sitting, always carries a spare egg in case of emergency. At their hotel in Rabat, said McHale, "I asked the bartender for two fresh eggs for my friend." The bartender replied: "Your friend, he is a magician?" Said McHale: "No, he's a painter." Asked the bartender: "He paints eggs?" "No," said McHale, "he paints with eggs." The bartender smiled thinly, gave McHale the eggs and politely dropped the subject...