Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Troublesome Names. But mental illness still defies a simple, pat definition, which is one reason why its various forms have been given so many different labels. To Dr. Menninger, a psychoanalyst, the trouble is that even his fellow professionals seem to see magic in a name: "Giving a name to something implies acquaintanceship with it. . . a degree of mastery over it." In psychiatry, a collection of thousands of names has not come close to conferring mastery...
...Andre Malraux and sponsored by the French government, which will eventually run to 40 volumes encompassing the whole of man's arts. Lavish in its illustrations, the present volume catches all the expressive, primitive power of Oceanic art while detailing its surprising variety and the age-old magic, mythic and ritualistic impulses that fostered it. A reader pondering its carved canoes and implements, its funerary and fertility figures and its grotesquely surrealistic ceremonial masks will catch more than a glimmering of what astounded and enthralled the eyes of great artists as different as Paul Gauguin, Picasso, Brancusi and Matisse...
...figurative works lost their audience Meanwhile he delved into the occult Cabalistic thought of the late-medieval European Jews, who saw nature as a deceptive cloak thrown over man's divine essence. Aronson's new subjects included the golem, or automaton, brought to life by magic and capable of either good or evil. Another was the dybbuk, a wicked spirit that can only be exorcised (usually through the small toe) by a wonder-working rabbi...
...been in nightclubs before," she rasps at the customers, "but I've always been on the other side of the highballs. No holds barred. Anything I miss hasn't been invented yet." But then the great klaxon voice takes over. It sounds 26, or whatever the most magic laryngeal age is, and she hardly needs the frightened little mike she conceals in her brassière. Those big metallic syllables, perfectly enunciated, come forth like bullets and mow down the crowd. "I must admit," she says, "I don't exactly croon a tune...
FLEXIBILITY is a magic word in business these days, but the chairman of R. H. Macy & Co., which runs the world's largest department store, believes in setting a course and sticking to it. "Once we agree on a policy, we don't change it without considerable consultation," says Jack Isidor Straus, 63, who last week reported that Macy's quarterly earnings rose 25% above last year's rate. For Macy's big Manhattan store, Straus's policy is to maintain a middle-income emporium "that you'd expect to have just about...