Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe that art should be explicit," says Balcomb Greene. "It should be suggestive and ambiguous so that the viewer has to enter in." Last week at a retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum in Manhattan viewers could see how magic Greene's ambiguity has been. His unearthly colors intrigue-not so much as color, but as shifting shadings of darkness and light. His forms seem to float by like changing clouds of steam, twisting into shapes that are now recognizable, now wholly abstract...
Vampire for Hire. Merely to contemplate what Yeats seriously believed in is enough to stagger the modern reader. He had, or vowed he had, complete faith in ghosts, fairies, magic, table rapping and spiritualism. He attended seances religiously, and once claimed to have seen a man in black and a hunchbacked woman fashion human flesh out of mysterious chemicals. At another séance, at which the spirits became very annoyed, witnesses reported that "Willie Yeats was banging his head on the table as though he had a fit, muttering to himself." Yeats sometimes primed the medium via telepathy...
...individual members of '61, however, the major changes were not wrought by the Program but by the curriculum, or the "customary magic of Harvard" cited by President Pusey this year in his Baccalaureate remarks. The continual intellectual immersion changed the outlooks of nearly every student, entrancing about 62 per cent into the vale of academe for further study. For 1961 more than ever before, Harvard College became a way-station on the road toward graduate school, law, medicine, or foreign universities. According to a preliminary study by the Office of Student Placement, 15 per cent plan to enter the military...
Another living legend--Charles Townsend Copeland--had already left the Yard two months before. No less esteemed than a president, "Copey" had climbed three flights of stairs to his Hollis 15 room for twenty years during which time he made magic of rhetoric for several thousand College men. He still read to freshmen for several years more, but his active teaching life was over...
...insidious pest. The stubborn weed looks like wheat, grows like wheat, and is so closely related to wheat that neither cultivation nor common weed killers can hold it back without harming the wheat crop. But a couple of U.S. manufacturers have finally concocted the kind of agricultural magic that farmers have been seeking for centuries: a weed-killing chemical so selective that it can actually tell wild oats from wheat...