Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eight and five were the magic numbers. 85 years of life, 58 years of marriage, and James F. Byrnes marked off both mileposts a day early. The former Secretary of State under Truman obligingly posed with a pair of cakes. "This is a great world in which to live so long," he said. And a young reporter asked what his outstanding experience had been. Byrnes smiled, thought back over his 40-odd years of public service and said simply: "Son, I hope you get to be 85 and somebody asks you that question...
...years ago. With the drawings fully authenticated (a thick layer of limy deposit, like candle wax, covers many of them, dismissing the possibility of a modern hoax), the cave is rated as a major archaeological find. Many art historians believe that cave art had magical meaning, purposely put in as cramped a space as possible in a sort of protective return to the womb. Though in an area famous for its subterranean paintings, its very magic may keep the new underground art gallery from ever becoming a tourist attraction. Only the hardiest visitors could crawl down to see the treasures...
...Magic Name. Holding no government office, Indira is nonetheless a member of the ruling Congress Party's powerful Working Committee, which guides all government actions. Voluble and imperious, she has had little experience of statecraft, and is noted, in a Western diplomat's words, for "thinking with her heart." Her foes predicted disaster in 1959 when she was elected president of the flabby, faction-torn Congress Party. But in her whirlwind year on the job, Indira showed considerable political acumen...
Bowl & Blood. In many religions, man uses icons to guide his meditations. Nepalese cloth paintings often contain mandalas, magic diagrams of the cosmos without and the self within. One such (see opposite page) focuses on the mighty mediating god, Mahakala, whose blue bulk is crowned and garlanded with severed heads. The worshiper is expected to make a visual pilgrim's progress from the edges of the mandala, where he buries his worldliness in stylized cemeteries showing scenes of torture and immolation. Four godlings representing the cardinal compass points help him purge external reality. At the center Mahakala waits, clutching...
...cold drizzle held the crowds to less than one-half the advance forecast of 000, and combined with civil rights demonstrations to rob even the most fabulous exhibits of some of their magic...