Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legalized six months ago when the gambling provisions of the new Betting and Gaming Act made playing for money legal if all money staked was returned in prizes. Since then, bingo clubs have sprung up by the hundreds, as warm with women ready to scream "Bingo!" when the magic square is checked. Profits to the house come only from admissions and sale of refreshments; by now, bingo is a $150 million-a-year business...
Dykes adopted a patient, paternal attitude toward Piersall, although he refused to pamper him. "If he starts to say anything out there, to the umps, for instance, I go out and yell, 'Jimmy' shut up.' It works like magic." Says Piersall: "The biggest thing is playing for someone who wants me and that makes all the difference in the world. I'm not playing for a guy who makes me the fall...
Talking Bat. So well has Dykes' magic worked that Piersall has yet to be bounced from a game this year. And Piersall has brought more to the Indians than a somewhat mellowed manner. Concentrating on his hitting, he has stopped undercutting the ball and has picked up pointers from an ex-Indian infielder, Joey Sewell. Says Piersall: "Sewell's made a thinking hitter out of me. Now I vary my stance according to what the pitcher throws." Last week, at the end of a blazingly-game stretch in which he hit .515 with 34 hits...
...Birdie and Fiorello! are both unpretentiously funny. Do Re Mi has Phil Silvers, but despite the inspired help of Nancy Walker, book and music combine to make this a lot less entertaining than Bilko reruns. Donnybrook!, another one of those hopeful musicals that believe in the magic of the exclamation point is a corny mixture of Irish sass and sentiment. As for Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, it is so sweet it hurts, but it does have Mary Martin...
...esthetic necessity. He applauded Shelley for agreeing with Blake "that Reason not only created Ugliness, but all other evils." Such statements seem slightly more reasonable when Yeats is placed where he belongs, with the first wave of what might be called the Counter-Industrial Revolution. His obsession with myths, magic and symbols was a poet's way of fighting the machine. In a poet's intuitive fashion, he was plumbing the "collective unconscious" before Jung labeled it, celebrating the irrational before Freud discovered its starring role. Far from having the gift of self-analysis, Yeats possessed instead...