Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know that the two biggest words in the English language are 'national defense.' If you just shout them loud enough, you are in the clear. It is just plain unpatriotic to question any appropriation for national defense. Defense against what? It does not matter. Just utter the magic words." Nelson's complaint was not considered much of an exaggeration ?only a year ago. Now, suddenly, the words seem to have lost their magic. Now another Senator notes that wherever he goes, "one sure applause line is a condemnation of the growing influence of the military...
Where has all the magic gone...
...certain compatibility between politics and journalism. "An M.P. has to be well informed," he says, "and journalism is one of the best ways of informing oneself." Journalism is also, as Winston Spencer Churchill well knows, a handy way to make a name for himself, while drawing on the magic of his namesake...
...Exhuming his Oscar-winning sorghum accent from In the Heat of the Night, he gets more syllables out of a conjunction than most other actors could from Hamlet's second soliloquy. Steiger's performance, which is well below his usual high standard, sadly lacks the quality of magic that separates simple fantasy from a waking nightmare...
...Guidebook can be believed, Ivy architecture can be broken down into Majestic Gothic and Traditional Ivy Covered. Five schools have the sprawling urban campus, three are New England rural setting. Once you have the location and the architecture, map out the coordinates on the magic chart and Bingo, there's that school in a nice neat package...