Word: spells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year president of the Motion Picture Association of America, contributed a Washington Post article deploring the "holy regard" among Americans for a President's "charisma." Wrote Valenti: "The only two modern figures who could be truly said to possess magic charisma, whose voice and person cast a spell over their countrymen and whom people followed blindly and exultingly were the two largest tyrants of our age, Hitler and Mussolini." Somehow, he overlooked such charismatic non-tyrants as Churchill and Gandhi, Roosevelt and De Gaulle-and for that matter, John Kennedy...
...audience realizes it has been under a spell inside Borges' imagination in a suspended moment before the instantaneously enthusiastic, unanimously venerative applause. Even those unfamiliar with his work and reputation experience the Borges magic. One little Cambridge lady, knowing something had happened but unsure what it was, bubbled after the fourth lecture. "Is that the man that was speaking? Is he Swedish or English or what? Oh, he's so wonderful...
...tale. There are the cruel oppressors, who are mainly Americans. And there are the cruelly oppressed, who range from the Viet Cong to Castro's Cubans to Bolivian peasants. Michèle's own role is that of the fairy princess who has come to break the spell and liberate them. As she often says, "I think with my heart...
Peace has always been uppermost in the Ibis's mind. He feels man must learn to live in harmony if he is to live at all. Yet he was a staunch advocate of preparedness in the late thirties, as one by one he saw the dominoes of disaster spell out their hideous gavotte...
...Desire lies in what happens to what is happening. To get at the potential of Anastasia Vote, the ineffable potential of magic and mystery, Hunter destroys the narrative form, that apple-pie order march of elements we all know and love--elements like time, cause and effect, motivation (spell it out, son), resolution. Yes, they all break down. (Like the junkyard, like Anastasia--you've got it now, BREAKDOWN is the theme.) The threads of plot tempt you to join a surrealistic scavenger hunt. Don't. Don't fumble about for a catenary of explanation and logistic. You're likely...