Word: magic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Caldwell is never more alive than when rehearsing. That, of course, is when she accomplishes most of her actual work. As the lights dim, she will chortle, "Ho ho ho, magic time," and begin to study the stage through those Thespian prisms that pass for eyes. One of her greatest but least appreciated strengths is her sense of proportion, or scale. In The Trojans Sarah made the horse as big as she could on her small stage, but was still not satisfied with the effect. Who finally emerged from the horse? Midgets and children costumed as soldiers. Sarah gets around...
Dwight D. Miller, associate director of admissions, told alumni there is no "magic word" to help in recruiting Native Americans and inner-city minorities, but that others have had success with "persistent, rifleshot personal contact...
...opera was Rinaldo, conceived, composed and staged for London's Haymarket Theater in 1711. Based on an epic about the Crusades by Torquato Tasso, the opera tells the story of the Christian general Rinaldo and the Saracen queen Armida. It is a spectacular mixture of pagan magic, military pomp, vocal fireworks and other trappings of the Italian Baroque operatic style, then the rage in London. During the "Bird Song" of Almirena, Rinaldo's true beloved, a flock of sparrows was let loose. The waspish essayist Joseph Addison had fun with that in The Spectator. "There have been...
Crane is a realist and he sees Cambridge's biggest problem as the inability of either side to really "get that five," the magic number that would provide it with a council majority on all issues...
...would upset the status quo." The feminists have filed a suit demanding an end to Steimatzky's emasculation of the magazine. Since Israel has no pornography law, the courts may well agree. Until the courts act, male employees at Steimatzky's Agency will dutifully wield their black-magic markers. Says he: "We wouldn't ask women to do it because it would be tasteless...