Word: magician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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White's Merlyn is ten times more fantastic than the Merlins of Malory, Tennyson, other Arthurian romancers. White's magician was born in the future, is living backwards in time, getting younger. This device is the excuse for numerous anachronisms: since Merlyn knows what will happen in the 20th Century, why not make some of it happen in the 13th? He does, to the delight of the Wart, to the confusion of Kay, Sir Ector and the reader...
...London last week for a "private visit" went Adolf Hitler's financial magician, clammy-handed, high-colored Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. President of the Reichsbank. Dr. Schacht is the only German bigwig who is persona grata in British financial circles for, despite the way he has kicked around the laws of economics, British bankers like to think that he has done so under political compulsion, that fundamentally he is a sound financier who may eventually lead Germany back to respectable financial methods: His host last week was his old friend, hoary-bearded Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England...
...troubled atmosphere. The hypnotic "illusionist," with his Mephistophelean sense of evil; the hysterical emotions of the dazed people he operates upon; the submerged, intolerable griefs that he forces them to stammer out-these have the kind of horror found in Thomas Mann's famed story Mario and the Magician. Melodramatic, a little shrill, a little unearthly, Here Come the Clowns is like a grotesque tune played on a broken fiddle...
...Four Horsemen" was produced in 1921 and was directed by Rex Ingram, who entered the field of spectacular motion pictures very shortly after Cecil B. DeMille's "Ten Commandments" appeared. "Scaramouche" and "The Magician" were other films directed by Ingram about this time. The "Four Horsemen" was made after the war novel of the same name published in 1918 by the Spanish author Vincente Blasco Ibanez. Rudolph Valentino, called the greatest cinematic drawing card of all time, plays the starring role...
...talents of his players and to upset the calculations of his opponents. Although tackling and blocking still win most football games, contemporary coaches must have a fat bag of offensive tricks (some have as many as 200). What the 1938 coach sees in his pipe dreams is a magician at every position-not only to fool his opponents but to please his public...