Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Guinea, native boys must undergo a kind of tribal bar mitzvah in which reeds are forced up their noses and down their throats to bleed out the spirits of their mothers. Some tribal warriors still eat a slice of a dead victim's liver to absorb his magic. Barely out of the Stone Age, this primitive land, composed of Australian Papua and the United Nations trust territory of Northeast New Guinea, was last week nevertheless preparing itself for self-government...
...avoid jargon. Simple language makes the doctor more human, and keeps people from being intimidated by the 'magic' of medicine. Besides jargon is really only useful to people who want to be convincing but are afraid they won't be--it's a way to puff yourself...
...like "fadge" (to make sense). Male characters do not dress; they are accoutered, like Achilles, in the armor prescribed by Beau Brummel, who, as every Heyer reader knows, not only taught Englishmen to wash, wear clean linen and conservatively cut clothes, but invented a boot polish with a special magic ingredient-vintage champagne. Its plot is frothy and prolix. Charles Fancot, the second son of now-defunct Lord Denville, comes home to London, after helping his uncle preside at the Congress of Vienna, to find that stormy Twin Brother Evelyn has resolved to get their flighty mother out of debt...
...witnessed dollar worship at the New York Stock Exchange reports: "For me, a man from another world, it was funny to observe hundreds of people, fat and thin, short and tall, but completely alike because of some kind of avid possessiveness, running about the whole room... crying out magic numbers and sounding like adding machines...
Both Mexico and Bolivia have ambitious plans to open up enormous tracts of virgin lands for destitute peasants. Of all the formulas, the one that holds the most magic is land reform, but so far the results are disappointing. Mexico's government has been redistributing land ever since the 1910 revolution...