Word: magic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hitler Germany's greatest stars, "Lisl" Bergner fled the country in 1933, scored a series of brilliant U.S. and British stage and screen successes (Stolen Life, The Two Mrs. Carrolls, Escape Me Never, Catherine the Great). But in the years just after the war, the Hollywood magic somehow gave out; Bergner appeared in a succession of stage flops, finally retired to London with her husband. Film Producer Paul Czinner. Last week's performance proved that her retirement had been premature...
...president of a New York mutual savings bank, "that for a moment I thought there was a run on the bank." All over the U.S., investors pulled their money out of their institutionalized socks to buy the four-year, ten-month issue, which finance officials have gleefully dubbed the "magic fives."* The New York Federal Reserve Bank reported that savings deposits in local commercial banks fell by $45 million following the Treasury's announcement-an unusually large one-week decline...
...human and superhuman love, selfish and selfless love, the dyer's wife eventually realizes that she loves her husband, and the empress sees that she herself cannot buy love in exchange for another's misery. Moving between the human and the spirit world, the opera blazes with magic effects: a sword swinging from nowhere, fish conjured from the air into a frying pan, a chorus of "unborn children...
Anyone who found the first 75 pages of Doctor Zhivago heavy going will find The Last Summer no easier. It is told in the same crosscutting flashbacks, as if unrelated strips of film were spliced together to achieve a unity of mood rather than magic. The time is 1916, and Russia is in the midst of war. The hero, Serezha, has come to visit his sister, and soon falls asleep. In a kind of Proustian reverie, he sleepwalks through events of the past-particularly through the fatefully serene prewar summer of 1914, which the young Pasternak nostalgically calls "that last...
Within the College, as elsewhere, Federal aid is rapidly gaining the status of a magic word. Surrounded by a climate of "liberalism," most Harvard undergraduates seem ready to accept increased Federal activity in almost any area of national life--from schoolrooms to hospitals, from housing developments to theatres, and from farms to factories...