Word: magic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...street 15 years ago, the name Frank Lloyd Wright meant, if anything, the builder of a hotel in Tokyo which by some engineering magic withstood the great earthquake of 1923. To the U. S. man-in-the-subway, his name was associated with scandalous episodes ground from the inhuman human-interest mill of the tabloid newspapers. A decade ago, when the brand-new International Style in architecture was seriously taken up by U. S. architects, many of them were surprised to discover that Wright had been its forerunner 30 years before, that by great European architects such...
...reality. They admired Matthew Brady's diamond-clear, sober pictures of the Civil War, Eugene Atget's photographs of Paris in the early 1900s a great deal more than Steichen's highly lit personalities in Vanity Fair. Steichen's love of lighting effects and studio magic (see cut) seemed to them stagy. Among these photographers were Berenice Abbott. Edward Weston, Paul Strand. Ralph Steiner and Walker Evans. The virtue of photography, Evans recalled, lay in the "difference between a quaint evocation of the past and an open window looking straight down a stack of decades...
Capable of amplifying current, altering wave shapes and frequencies, detecting electric impulses, oscillating, rectifying current, and many other duties, these modern "magic lamps," first utilized thirty years ago, now have hundreds of uses in industry, research, and entertainment...
Meanwhile the magic looking glass has told the Queen that Snow White still lives...
...rate: the phonograph and the radio. Primitive races find old-fashioned radio sets somewhat fragile for jungle use. But cheap, hand-cranked squeak-boxes with chipped records of American cowboy songs and Italian operas are found today in mud-walled villages from Timbuktu to Singapore. Impressed by this mechanical magic, natives imitate the scratchy voices, learn to sing Il Trovatore, and end by preferring it, for better or worse, to their own ancient chants...