Word: magics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...king of voodoo rock is ushered in with the calls of a thousand maidens locked forever in his grasp. Dr. John, the Night Tripper, that curious mixture of syncopation, polyphony and mysticism, has returned once again from the world of magic to the world of music in his new album The Sun, Moon and Herbs. Like his three previous efforts, Dr. John's latest album manages to avoid the pitfalls of false profundity, emerging instead as a reflection of the artist...
...friend, Marcus Maudsley, uses him as a plaything--one with macabre attractions, to be sure. Leo, the orphaned son of a shabby-genteel pacifist and book-collector, is notorious at his school only because of his black magic. There is no real affection present in the relationship; a thick oil of politeness surrounds the entire Maudsley family. The Maudsleys test each other aesthetically rather than touch and exchange emotions or ideas...
With so many other candidates in the field, Muskie plans to hold the center. If his earnest, sometimes ponderous manner does not project a specific magic, neither does it repel any constituency within the party. His hope is that his personal style will be so suited to the Democratic need for unity that he will become the inevitable candidate. He is counting on building a partywide feeling that he is the man who can engineer victory in '72 by pulling together the right and left, young and old, white and black...
...first step, already partly taken, is to prevent the birth of unwanted children. According to one major survey, at least one American child in five is unwanted. The obvious solution -making both contraceptives and abortion cheaper and more available-would reduce the birth rate to below the magic 2.1. The principal question-raised anew last month by Milton Eisenhower and ex-Senator Joseph Tydings, founders of the Coalition for a National Population Policy-is whether Americans can be persuaded to want fewer children. A recent Gallup poll showed that the trend is in that direction: the percentage favoring large families...
...wages have risen much faster, the cost of manufactured goods has climbed -adding to inflation. With the U.S. productivity performance since 1966 the worst it has been in the post-World War II era, businessmen are beginning to have new doubts about whether the nation's old economic magic is still working...