Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of Cairo remains the same: close, crowded and cacophonous with hard-pressed auto horns. In Imbaba, on the west bank of the Nile, camels streaked with henna still plod unknowingly toward the slaughterhouse, and gully-gully men delight bright-eyed, brown-faced children with magic tricks as they did their grandfathers 50 years ago. Imbaba's junk market is still unchanged, and bent nails and half-shoelaces are traded with solemnity and diligence. The red flowerpot of the tarboosh has all but vanished from Cairenes' heads, and Nasser has even made considerable progress in his campaign...
...trouble there is. Siobhan McKenna, for all her gloriously peat boggy voice and her fine face with its mouth shaped like a shamrock leaf, is 20 years too old to be playing the fiery-tempered Pegeen opposite the likes of boyish Gary Raymond. A pity, too, for the magic goes well until a closeup breaks the spell...
Brownie Points. Unlike Salinger's magic Holden Caulfield, Decker is inarticulate, and the internal musings of this gilded mooncalf are gruesomely awkward. When he behaves well, he thinks of himself as "making Brownie points humanwise." Others undertake to explain him to himself, like his college roommate. He is a Siwash Indian who is the first of his tribe to go to college, but he tells Wells: "You fascinate me, Wells. You are untouched. No diseases of the outside world have tinged you. You're part of an aboriginal race, maybe. I wonder if it has something...
...Daniela Saunders was choked to death in an alley in Boston's tough Roxbury section, and the city's fury knew no bounds. Police Commissioner Edmund L. McNamara appeared before a mass protest meeting and pleaded for understanding. Said he, sadly: "I wish I could wave a magic wand." In mid-January police arrested a 15-year-old boy who admitted strangling the Saunders girl because she had refused him a kiss; he could not possibly have been the Phantom Strangler...
...tons of water from the Ab-i-Diz River below crashed through sluice gates and began turning giant dynamos. A knot of Cabinet ministers, diplomats and engineers burst into hat-waving cheers as. down in the canyon, electricity began flowing into Moslem villages that had never before known the magic of plug-in power...