Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This Rough Magic, Stewart...
Capitalist Magic. The crowd outside the castle faced Novotny in grim silence - and with good reason. Under Novotny's inflexible, inept rule, potentially rich Czechoslovakia has suffered a continuous economic crisis. Industrial production has fallen, productivity has stagnated, and last week the official news agency blandly conceded that Czechoslovakia would be compelled to buy 2,200,000 tons of grain abroad be cause of a disastrous domestic harvest...
Such dismal conditions have forced Communist planners to resort to that old capitalist magic, the profit motive...
...glass darkly, but face to face, even as he is seen." Beckmann makes visible and concrete, his clusive identity, his inner self: "If you wish to get hold of the invisible, you must penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible. My aim is to get hold of the magic reality and to transform this reality into painting....It is reality which forms the mystery of our existence." Reality for Beckmann is just that which cannot be seen, the hidden, intangible destiny which works itself out in the lives...
...turn to the most revealing facet of your article, one not directly connected with the Radcliffe rejection of family life, which you so justifiably abhor. You worry about the pernicious effects of this attitude and its self-perpetuating nature upon young women. Yet in your very sketch of that "magic solution--each woman's recognition of and respect for that graciousness which can adorn her unique role as housewife," is manifested a positively terrifying distortion as damnable as any "Madison Avenue glorification of domestic details." Methinks you have cerebralized too much. A bit of objective rationality, in plain English, horsesense...