Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your Essay put into words what many have felt since Nov. 22, 1963. Our nation is in capable hands, but the magic is gone. While Johnson's legislative performance forces us to admire him, the Kennedy legend cannot...
...theatrical form whose genesis, lost in time, goes back thousands of years. Punch and Judy were born before Diarist Samuel Pepys, who watched their antics in the 17th century. Punch's ancestor, a hook-nosed Turkish bully named Karaghioz, preceded him by several centuries. The special exaggerated magic of the marionette, which lives only in the minds of its spectators and often requires three human puppeteers to give it movement, is affectionately evoked by a man who has been quickening his own mannequins for 40 years...
...magic had mysteriously gone out of Thornton's glove, and two-and-a-half minutes later Grimble scored the winning tally...
...glass menagerie clusters on a small table, glittering and dancing in the beams of light. Its tiny creature prance without motion, craning their transparent necks and stamping their transparent feet. They inhabit a magic world in miniature...
...trouble with the Lowell House production of Tennessee William's The Glass Menagerie is just that: the magic world of memory and illusion that Williams tried to create exists only in the glass figurines. The rest of the play, except for a moment or two, is flat, prosaic, and pretty unmagical...