Word: magics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elections was the campaigning in the North End, one of the nation's most colorful and tightly knit communities. One victorious candidate, Ted Tomasone, a clerk in the Boston municipal criminal court, had a few posters and a slew of tiny cards printed. Other candidates contented themselves with Magic Marker signs and mimeographed slips reminiscent of student council elections. The atmosphere was distinctly nonpartisan; most of the loudspeaker cars simply urged the people to get out and vote...
...DESPERATELY): Well, you were interested in show business as a youngster. You did magic tricks in your basement and that sort of thing? How did you get started with that...
...proved some physical prowess by becoming expert in gymnastics, but his real world was all make-believe. Like Johnny Carson, a transplanted Nebraskan, young Cavett took up magic. He gave shows in his basement, and by the time he was a teenager, he was pulling rubber chickens out of his hat for pleasure and a fee before P.T.A. groups. He had his own weekly radio drama show on the local station while he was still in high school. He was living his show business fantasies in the highest style available to a boy, but that was not enough...
...next moment was magic. The few hundred people in the audience were smiling encouragement, clapping loud and hard. They were, it was true, responding to a flashing APPLAUSE sign, but who cared? Awash in the sound, I was transported into indescribable ecstasy. Instantly I understood what it felt like to be Dick Cavett or any other entertainer: not a few hundred but countless millions of unfamiliar humans seemed to be lavishing affection and approval, yielding themselves totally to my presence. Anxiety fled. I announced that I had come to play Dick Cavett's role. Then, peering squarely into the wrong...
...only work in order to change things, you will simply go nuts. I am an authority on it. The book is mostly about kites and dogs and lizards and salamanders and magic." That is James Herndon, reformed globetrotter turned public school teacher, describing his newest book and confronting in characteristic stance the lugubrious subject of U.S. public education. Everything Herndon observes takes place in the "Spanish Main" intermediate school in "Tierra Firma," a thinly disguised middle-class suburb of San Francisco, where Herndon has taught for years. He appears to have tried every kind of pedagogical method, from applying...