Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party given for his rural neighbors. De Gaulle seemed tired, his eyes red-rimmed and sunken. Yet he had proved once more his ability to rouse grass-roots enthusiasm whenever he chose. If there were still any doubters, they would be able to watch De Gaulle work his magic again next month, when he plans to tour the Vendee in western France...
...Rabbit" and "Buck Rabbit," as they called each other before the magic went out of their twice-dissolved marriage, have finally split for keeps. Dropping her appeal to the second divorce (May 1962), Muriel Marston, 49, third wife of ailing Tobacco Heir Richard Joshua Reynolds, 57, will let him go unfettered to a fourth wife he had somehow acquired between court hassles. Cost to Reynolds by terms of an out-of-court settlement: $2,142,624 in alimony (largest recorded in Georgia history), including $500,000 for Muriel's lawyers, plus a written guarantee not to disturb...
That is to say, she gets it in the neck when her boy friend does a vanishing act from a traveling magic show, stranding the troupe in a Kansas tank town. But she looks around, notices that by gosh it is the very town she grew up in, and goes to live with Claire Trevor, who had been like a mother to her years before. Claire's son (Richard Beymer) grudgingly moves out of his room onto a day bed. One night, after a fight with Mom, he goes out, gets drunk, comes home, jumps into...
Langer also outlined the "polarization of attitutes among the population," as some people became fanatically pious engaging in flagellation, magic or witchcraft while others "gave themselves up to drunkeness and debauchery." He quoted a medieval source which spoke of "drunkards and whoremongers following their lasts with the sword of the pestilance hanging over them." Langer called this "the Boccacio effect, a common human reaction to the threat of impending death...
...Gilbert and Sullivan Players' Sorcerer has powerful magic. Depending on whether they believed their tickets or their programs, at 8:00 or 8:30 in trooped the opening-nightdress: grim. Two hours later they streamed out: smiling. The G & S Sorcerer cast a spell on them, from the start: "Forget your notes of mournful lay," the chorus commanded, "and from your throats pour joy today." All obeyed...