Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FICTION 1. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Le Carre (3 last week) 2. Candy, Southern and Hoffenberg (1.) 3. Armageddon, Uris (2) 4. Julian, Vidal (4) 5. The Rector of Justin, Auchincloss (5) 6. Convention, Knebel and Bailey (6) 7. This Rough Magic, Stewart 8. The 480, Burdick (7) 9. The Spire, Golding (9) 10. You Only Live Twice, Fleming...
...Within seconds, the ovation surged all over the huge hall. Bobby tried several times to talk. But every time he said "Mr. Chairman," the applause grew louder. Finally Bobby smiled hesitantly, looked down, bit his lip. The demonstration, entirely spontaneous, lasted for 13 minutes, proving if nothing else the magic of the Kennedy name and memory...
Brophy's analysis of The Magic Flute lands her in a tangle of psychology and Masonic symbolism that even she has trouble resolving. (Mozart got into pretty deep water too.) But she is brilliant on Cosi Fan Tutti, the opera in which Mozart, like Jane Austen a century later, worked through the conventional comedy of mistaken identity to write daringly of two sisters competing fiercely in love...
...Then, under a barrage of pressure from Bobby's friends, regular Democratic district leaders throughout the state surrendered in rapid succession. Finally, only one major bulwark still stood against the blitz: the state's most powerful Democrat, New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner. "Dazzling Magic." Last week the walls came tumbling down-and there stood Bob Wagner. There can be no question of Bob Kennedy's "personal eminence," said the mayor, nor "of the appealing nature of his great public achievements, nor of the dazzling magic of his name. The vision, imagination, courage and initiative...
...music. Already a guitar-whacking bunch of folk singers called the New Christy Minstrels have entertained at a state dinner for Italy's President Segni, and Lady Bird recently capped a banquet for United Nations Secretary-General U Thant with a lusty audience sing-along of Puff, the Magic Dragon...