Word: magic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...waits for someone else to test the bridge before walking across? It is cruel and tragic that McCarthy, a man of proven moral and intellectual values, a man who can and did stand firm in the face of possible disaster, may be defeated by the so-called magic of the Kennedy name and the synthetic charm of young Mr. Kennedy's smile. One wonders whom and what R.F.K. will be willing to sell out next...
...Viet Nam, notably the mining of Haiphong harbor. Last month in New Hampshire, he gave rise to the secret-plan notion by giving his "pledge" that a new Administration would "end the war and win the peace in the Pacific." He conceded that he had no "pushbutton solutions, no magic gimmicks." He was merely making the quite obvious point that any new President would be under particular pressure to stop hostilities...
...this record he demonstrates why. In addition to guitar, bongos, bass and drums, he is accompanied by a distinctively Garner rhythm device that the album cover aptly describes as the "swinging-grunt"-emphatic guttural sounds that express his exuberance at playing uptempo. The effect is to put fresh magic into his renditions of // Ain't Necessarily So, Autumn Leaves and More...
...authoritarianism, senseless dogma and suffocating ritual, which the dissidents feel bear little relation to true Christianity. What the rebels are seeking, says Boyd, is a church that "will be seen less and less as a building on a corner, to be visited to indulge in a period of 'magic'. Smaller Christian communities will replace larger ones; clergy will be employed in 'the world,' with only distant memories of a priestly mystique...
...March 20 lecture on "Word Music," Borges proposed, "Poetry is not trying to take a set of logical coins and work them into magic. Rather, it is bringing words back to their original source. . . . Words began, in a sense, as magic" (at a time when "light" actually flashed, and "night" was darker than now), and later assumed abstract meanings: "Language did not come from libraries," but from fishermen, fields and dawn. "We know men sang before they talked. . . . We feel the last line of the first chapter of Finnegan's Wake could only have been written after centuries of literature...