Word: spellbinding
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...ller's The Changing Countryside (Atheneum; $9.95), is the pictorial equivalent of music-an unbound suite of seven large luminous paintings (33¾ in. by 12½ in.) that spellbind without the use of words. Though Müller is Swiss, his story, unfortunately, is universal: the gradual erosion of a natural setting by urban sprawl. Starting in the spring of 1953, with barefoot farm children in a burgeoning countryside, Artist Müller takes characters and acreage through the incursions of a railroad, the depredations of bulldozer, drill and crane, and, ultimately, in the fall...
Chester catches sight of his destiny in adolescent flashes of intuition. Standing in a tent show before a penny-dreadful melodrama, he feels the actor's hypnotic hold on the crowd, senses that his words too may one day sway and spellbind. Standing, on another day, atop a rain-drenched knoll with his Adventist father and nine of the faithful awaiting the second coming of Christ, he feels his faith oozing away. He turns to the prophets of social revolution, soaks up the teachings of Proudhon, Marx and Bakunin. and becomes a labor organizer. But a violent and bitter...
...Fahey brow only when a new edition nears press time, because not so much as a postage stamp of space must go bare, and he must fill in from memory all the spaces under the pictures and around the figures. The assorted facts tailored to fit these spaces spellbind Navy buffs and pros. And Mr. Fahey has profitably found out that Navy fanciers are legion...
Leon Marie Joseph Ignace Degrelle, 30-year-old son of a French brewer who be came a naturalized Belgian citizen, first suspected that he had a talent for demagogy when he used to spellbind his fellow law students at Louvain University. Flung at his head by his enemies are the charges that he got no university degree, that he "evaded military service by falsely pleading heart disease." By 1934 he was running his own paper Rex (taking its name from Christus Rex) which, though purporting to work within the frame of the Catholic Party, offended some Catholic leaders...
...outspoken desire for war and expansion, thereby encouraging him, sided with him against Ethiopia and on other occasions when she wished to thwart France, now that her own interests are at stake, she expects France to forget everything and ardently woos her in the hope that she can spellbind her to her side...