Word: magic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been trying too hard. To loosen them up, Coach Eddie Erdelatz encouraged a corny gag: every game was dedicated to a nicely rounded, nonexistent damsel named Rosie Ragoni. And for Rosie the Navy won. But against the unbeaten and untied Irish of Notre Dame, the team needed stronger magic. It was provided unwittingly by Navy's athletic director, Captain Slade Cutter. The Middies were getting a little tired of his reminders that every game except the Army game was only a practice scrimmage. So, instead of playing for the love of Rosie, they were spurred by their pique with...
Such bizarre beasts-human beings usually hopped up with hashish and kept in captivity by local experts in black magic -are no strangers to the orderly process of British justice in Africa. In much of Africa the trained, crazed killers masquerade as leopards, perform their dark deeds in leopard fashion by pouncing on the backs of unsuspecting victims from the low-hanging branches of forest trees, slashing their backs and necks with razor-sharp knives fitted to their fingers like claws. In Tanganyika, however, lions are man's most prevalent enemy. There the fashion trend is toward lion skins...
...clergy with fat cathedral livings. there are the Communist hierarchs of the "New Class." Instead of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England, the cruel nonsense of dialectical truth provides the rules of the contest for place and power. Author Grinioff works the same novelist's magic as Trollope-the reader finds Communism hateful and absurd but still wants the little Red bank manager to beat the rap. The book's ultimate irony is stated in the title taken from a 1955 speech by Khrushchev: ''We will abandon Communism when the shrimp learns...
Theatrically, it would not matter if Saroyan wrote first with an eraser−to wipe out reality−if afterwards, with a pen, he created magic. But this play has little magic: only a stab of pathos, now and then, in a wilderness of plight; or a flash of color, humor, poetry amid constant murmuration...
...advantages. The most conspicuous lackee is Daddy Ballou, a monosyllabic TV repairman. Daddy usually climbs into the TV set after dinner, or sometimes with his dinner, and fiddles with a few wires. Daddy and Mummy also play a game called "Cigar Hunt," which Mummy generally wins with the magic words. "All right . . . hand it over!" For Mummy's sake Benjy is anxious to straighten out poor Daddy. Speaking in the third person, as he sometimes does, Benjy promises that when he goes to school, "he's going to study hard, hard ... so he'll get two diplomas...