Word: magician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MAGICIAN'S WIFE by James M. Cain. 233 pages. Dial...
Meaning in the Depths. Author O'Connor was a verbal magician whose phrases flamed like matches in the dark, revealing a face in a flash (a child's features contorted with grief into "a puzzle of small red lumps"), a life in a single insight ("a sniveler after the ineffable"). But the motivation of character and the imitation of life did not finally interest Author O'Connor. "The meaning of a story," she once wrote, "begins at a depth where these things have been exhausted...
Exhibition participants, who examined and ponderously commented on all manner of comic-strip techniques, included an assortment of professors, movie directors, publishers, and three imported American comic-strip writers: Al Capp (Li'I Abner), Alfred Andriola (Kerry Drake), Lee Falk (Mandrake, the Magician). Most of the participants seemed thoroughly convinced that significant trends can be discerned in the way Li'l Abner runs from girls or scratches his head...
...built as the tomb of Pharaoh Zoser, who reigned about 2980 B.C., but Imhotep was its architect. And because it is the oldest stone pyramid, the Egyptians have credited Imhotep with inventing the art of building with cut stone. He was also Zoser's prime minister, a magician, sage, proverb maker, and patron of the scribes who ran the Egyptian bureaucracy. Century by century through Egypt's long history his reputation grew. During the Ptolemaic dynasty (323-30 B.C.), when Greeks ruled Egypt, he was identified with Asclepius, their mythical source of the healing arts; sick people limped...
Died. Phil Davis, 58, cartoonist-creator of Mandrake the Magician, the silk-hatted, opera-cloaked hero who hypnotized villains into paroxysms of fear and turned their bullets to putty with a snap of his fingers in 253 newspapers for 30 years; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...