Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past six months. Bea has delivered nine major public speeches and has given 15 press conferences in five languages about the Vatican Council. Bea denies that any magic or mystery is involved in his transformation into a public figure. "There is no charisma," he says. "Just an incitement to work. I was preformed for this...
...conducting crusades for Christ for 13 years. According to his statistics-minded aides, he has completed 115 crusades, preached to more than 27 million people, accounted for 875,000 "decisions for Christ." Last week Billy was busy conducting his first crusade in Chicago-and something of the old platform magic was still at work. After seven days, Billy had spoken to 220,000 people, recorded 5,521 decisions, and, as usual, he found himself overwhelmed by the response. "There is a depth to the meetings I have not felt before," he said...
...mythical island of Shakespeare's Tempest, the forces of human bestiality, which raged so freely in his earlier tragedies, are held peacefully in check by the benign white magic of Prospero. Now, in Yoknapatawpha County, an equally mythical but heretofore relentlessly dark and bloody portion of Mississippi, a similarly pacific sea change has taken place. Evil still exists there, but it makes no serious headway. No one is raped. No one is lynched. No one is murdered...
...office holds up even without the Picasso magic. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts reported recently that its six-week exhibit of a touring Van Gogh show drew 122,000 people. 83,000 of whom, being adults and nonmembers, paid $1 at the door...
...exotically daring as anything Boston has ever seen. Designed by Gerhard Kallman, Noel Mc-Kinnell and Edward F. Knowles, all of Columbia University, it combines traditional Boston brick with reinforced concrete, but the most striking thing about it is its use of ancient secrets to produce modern magic. It does indeed look something like a temple, neatly set within a plaza and punctuated by sloping terraces, sweeping public walks, and an endless play of light and shadow on a façade so deliberately broken up that it ignores floor lines except at the top. "It has a beautiful scheme...