Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the chicks and chuckles, Reggie Van Gleason presents a magic show, and rings in Prestidigitator Milbourne Christopher to give a helping sleight of hand...
...Redwood City, Calif., company that manufactures recording equipment ranging from videotape for television stations to magnetic memory tape for high speed computers. From 75? a share in 1954, Ampex stock shot up to 45⅜ in 1959 after two stock splits. Then, in 1960, Ampex suddenly lost its magic. Its one-time profits turned to a $3,930,000 loss, and its stock plummeted...
...Inability to Laugh. Kafka's form was magic realism in which, as Politzer writes, "clefts and crags open to reveal depths beyond realistic detail." In breathless, frightened prose, Kafka built his ambivalent fears into ambiguities that empty the spirit. His heroes endure events that seem to mirror their experience, but in fact are tantalizing opposites that contradict everything they know. In The Trial Kafka's hero asserts his innocence until echoes of his own voice convince him of his guilt. Life becomes absurd in a universe whose nature is that guiltless men shall be punished. Kafka never knew...
...difference between right and wrong-and in that grade, one-half of U.S. Episcopal Sunday-school pupils now discuss morals as well as Bible stories. The new program, says Department Director David Hunter, is based on a "vigorous attempt to do something in the children's lives." Magic Tricks. In teaching methods, a new ingenuity is visible everywhere. The Massachusetts Council of Churches is studying a plan to tie in Sunday-school lessons with subjects being taught in public schools at the same time, so that a study of Paul's travels, for example, could draw...
...have always held in great respect, has directed this new Yeomen, and I suppose I must reluctantly assume that he is therefore the man responsible for its quips and cranks. Mr. Tigar, if he is indeed the man responsible, has got Gilbert and Sullivan all wrong. What little magic there is in any G & S show, you see, comes in the best of its songs, which--like the madrigals and the ballads--are at once both charming pieces of music and very gentle spoofs of themselves. The rest of the show, however--the jokes, the patter, the thundering choruses...