Word: hocus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Little Hocus-Pocus." The self-styled "Wizard of Clubs," Paul Hahn, 46, is the world's acknowledged expert at "devious ways of hitting the ball." A teaching pro since he was 18, Hahn took a fling at the P.G.A. tournament circuit after World War II, quit after two years ("I wasn't making any money"), and went back to telling duffers the difference between a mashie and a niblick. To keep himself amused, he tried "a little hocuspocus" on the practice tee, and club members started showing up to applaud such antics as hitting two balls simultaneously...
...best of plays; and certainly the Loeb Drama Center is capable of providing it in immense amounts. But CRIMSON reviewers must also realize that the process of making a play "come alive," as Mr. Gordon says Sophocles' works "honorably" do, is absolutely dependent upon a certain amount of hocus-pocus. Sets are gimmicks; so are theatrical lights; so are costumes and made-up faces. And they have a certain amount of validity: they began to be used even before theatre moved out of the cathedral. The problem is not whether or not gimmicks should be employed in the theatre...
...curiosity aroused, Gordon found out as much as he could about the rainmaker. The man insisted on remaining anonymous, but he was willing to talk a little, in a negative way, about his methods: "I don't use any machinery, chemicals or hocus-pocus...
Brecht's sardonic point emerges with ferocious bitterness when the framework of theatrical hocus-pocus is followed firmly and thoroughly," Taubman summarized...
...tent. But in Philadelphia a fortnight ago, the suffering who came forward to be healed-a retarded girl of about six, an old man with an ugly facial growth-received a blessing as dignified as the setting: 139-year-old St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. "This is no hocus-pocus," said St. Stephen's Rector Alfred Price from the pulpit. "This is a sacrament you are about to receive-the sacrament of healing...