Word: magic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wanted nothing more than to be a princess. At twelve I wrote Elizabeth II asking to be Prince Charles' pen pal. From twelve on I cut out every article I could find on Britain's royal family. Older but not wiser I still feel the magic. No presidential family has made me feel that...
...back in May of 1960, such a hardy long-distance runner? Certainly not the critics. Walter Kerr, writing in the now defunct New York Herald Tribune, thought the show "a little less than satisfactory," and the Times's Brooks Atkinson found it "the sort of thing that loses magic the longer it endures...
Just as Princeton had done the day before, Navy pummeled four Harvard hurlers for an identical number of hits and runs, but this time the magic number...
...Magic Flute...
Their Majesties' almost treasonous appeal will be apparent in coming months as millions of Americans switch TV dials from Sonny and Cher to Sonja and Harald and Liz and Phil spectaculars. The royals have always been polished performers. They have, after all, been in the magic business for a long, long time, and their claim to the copyright on Camelot is, in many ways, as enduring as it ever was. Democracies have long since learned they can live comfortably either with them or without them. But the mystique of nationhood is as elusive of definition as ever, and wherever Kings...