Word: magic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Uniquely, greater Washington's economy improves in both good times and bad. Not by magic. Public problems are to Washington what oil and gas are to Texas. In Washington the fuel crisis that is but a specter everywhere else takes the shape of a new Department of Energy. Somehow the city does not need to fear the economic cycles that batter the rest of a country. Why not? Well, as the New Republic put it, "Washingtonians live outside of the law of supply and demand...
Then, just as he had so many times before, Ali tried to take command in the middle rounds, and for a time the old magic blinked on. In the champion's corner, Trainer Angelo Dundee had noticed that Spinks' early bobbing and weaving had degenerated into an amateur's dangerously upright stance as the young challenger appeared to tire. "This is it," Dundee told Ali before the 10th round. "He's ready to fall. This round, champ, this round. Go get him! Hit him! Take...
Even when performed amid the Naugahyde and flash of Las Vegas, sport can serve a kind of liturgical function. It becomes a parable: those few athletes who are gifted with a certain magic become proof of the splendors that the body can achieve-the feats of grace, strength, speed, skill, stamina. But the athlete's half-life is so short; his decline and failure become a model of the mortality in everyone...
MANY SOCIAL SCIENTISTS theorize that science and technology are sweeping all before it, shoving aside tradition, magic, superstition and old values that cannot be justified in terms of collective utility. This ultimate rationalization of human behavior provides the basis for modern industry and brings about un--precedented economic progress with its promise of a material Utopia--abundance, the arguments go, will eradicate class conflicts and education and enlighten the masses so they will naturally agree with other classes on societal goals. Stability and prosperity will hold sway, and all members of society will accept the legitimacy of capitalism...
...humorous lyrics based on science fiction or fantasy themes, sung to familiar tunes in a disorganized but spirited way. As the night wears on, the singing often degenerates to more widely know, bawdy lyrics, such as "Barnacle Bill the Sailor." But the most creative songs, including "Smaug, the Magic Dragon," "Cthulhu's Days Are Here Again," "Our Space Opera Goes Rolling Along," and "Bouncing Potatoes," circulate in different versions from convention to convention...