Word: magic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Strong emotions are the very stuff of grand opera, yet film has had a hard time portraying them in all their complexity. Ingmar Bergman's The Magic Flute delighted in the playfulness of Mozart's fairy tale but missed its underlying seriousness. Joseph Losey's Don Giovanni emphasized the same composer's brooding drama but failed to locate it within the realm of the human comedy. Zeffirelli's La Traviata strikes just the right note. Visually stunning and musically thrilling, it is the finest operatic movie yet made. It should appeal even to those...
Defensively, even the usual magic of freshman pitcher Gerri Rubin was missing. The Chieftains pointed the sky, exploding for 10 hits against the yardling...
...controversy in the history of Harvard which filled the pages of The Crimson and preoccupied the national news media for months 20 years ago Drs. Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, both psychologist and members of the Harvard. Faculty, had discovered psilocybin, a consciousness altering substance in the "magic mushroom," and were busy persuading graduates and un dergraduates to take it--in some in stances as part of a course for credit They arranged sessions--called "drug trips" by their opposition--for groups as diverse as prisoners in the Concord Reformatory and worshippers at an Easter Service to take psilocybin...
...frequently proffered explanation for the Tuchman magic is her unique style. In a time when history as a discipline is becoming increasingly quantified and scientific, Tuchman has led a single-handed crusade for a humanistic approach "Prefabricated systems make me suspicious and science applied to history makes me wince, "Tuchman told the Radcliffe chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in 1963. Quoting Leon Trotsky, she added "Cause in history refracts itself through a natural selection of accidents...
...Menenhetet I often sounds like the world's oldest existentialist: "Look for the risk. We must obey it every time. There is no credit to be drawn from the virtue of one's past." This figure has given much thought during his lives to the mysterious, possibly magic properties of human excrement, a topic that Mailer has pondered in an essay called "The Metaphysics of the Belly" and in various interviews. The purpose of Menenhetet's research, he tells Ramses IX, is "to enrich the marrow of our failing lands," a task reminiscent of the "great mission...