Word: magic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...living room, knock out a wall and give them an audience. Without action the result is liable to be dull exposition of the ordinary topics of life, unless a catalytic agent is inserted. In the present production by the Brattle Hall players, George Bernard Shaw is the catalyst; his magic transforms the discussion into an amusing, intelligent play which the actors handle in a most capable manner...
...crack corporation analyst, will become financial editor of the Wall Street Journal. The two will work closely together. Davenport would like to see Barron's slowly become a more influential journal of political and economic opinion, but is mum about specific changes. Says he: "There's no magic in this business. It'll come out in the doing...
...realize that the protection of his guests' reputation is a factor in the College's rulings, or that an out-of-hand party can be just as disturbing to other House residents as to the College. But he does not see why one particular hour is the magic dividing line between right and wrong, nor why a more satisfactory plan could not be worked out to make the college seem more hospitable to guests whose morals may be better than those attributed to them by the Dean...
...avenue furiously honked their horns. For a breathless moment it looked to fascinated Paris pedestrians as if the four diplomatic cars would become the center of a hopeless traffic jam. But unruffled cops blew their shrill whistles, waved their white batons and the traffic flowed again, as if by magic...
...Magic In Union. In the U.S. a belief was growing that 1) all of West Europe's economic ills would cease overnight if integration could be brought about; 2) what held up integration was the cussed stubbornness and shortsightedness of European politicians. The view did not fit the complicated realities of the case...