Word: magicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these escapes, but intensely anti-intellectual endings. Consciously or not, he asserts humanity by rejecting the intellectual and the analytic--the knight of the Seventh Seal, his quest for meaning in life unfulfilled, is taken by Death, leaving behind the troupers who have accepted life unquestioning. The Magician is called off to give a command performance, escaping a broken scientist whose effort to strip life down to reality has failed. And the Householder of Virgin Spring finally says...
Died. Alexander F. Victor, 82, Swedish-born magician who abandoned his stage career as "The Great Alexander" for another kind of magic, inventing the electric washing machine, the 16-mm. sound movie projector, and some 300 other devices; of cirrhosis; in Monterey, Calif...
...combination of mogul geology and sun chemistry make a mediocre skier without edge control into a magician. The hill becomes a slippery sandbox of rhythm in the frosty intensity of late winter afternoon. But crossed tips can make a four-stitch salad out of a novice leg. The end: the skier looks out of a mountain urinal at the back of the city...
German-born Author Maass, 60, has gifts like those of a Chinese magician: out of old newspaper pages about an obscure crime, he has proliferated a great flowering of sin and scenery, myth and mysticism. He resembles Simenon in his ability to evoke swiftly a street, a room, a city. In the final chapters, there is an unfortunate settling down of Gothic and miasmal mist, but even here, Gabrielle Bompard is wildly and insistently alive, whether jabbing a coachman with her imperious parasol or grumbling crossly at a tired lover: "Is it my fault if men overestimate their capacities?" Many...
...Chinese Magician. Jacquemar, determined that justice be done, trails her to Saratoga Springs, where Gabrielle has already cut her customary deadly swath: Carapin is enfeebled, one elderly U.S. admirer has died, another is on the verge of suicide. Her task is made easy by the trifling competition of U.S. women, who, though pretty, "were devoid of fragrance like immortelles, coarsened into mannishness by some deep disappointment, and hostile to the male." Jacquemar, no Bellerophon, is unable to slay this particular Chimera. He falls hopelessly in love with Gabrielle and is endlessly deceived. Watching as she frolics with a farm...