Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people want change," he cried in his acceptance speech last week. "We shall open a new era that will bring a new morality in public service. Corruption will be destroyed before it destroys the nation, and unemployment will be immediately solved. This will be achieved primarily through the magic of free and private enterprise...
...Papuans still live in primitive villages where the cowrie shell is the medium of exchange and where women often rank below pigs on the social scale. For the primitive tribesmen of the interior, the concept of government does not exist; their only political guideposts are myth and magic. Head-hunting and cannibalism are still practiced in some areas. Some Papuan natives wear no clothes save for string, have no dishes or cooking utensils. They consider death the action of a wizard, often chop off the ends of their fingers as a sign of mourning...
...Show Girl, Actress Channing is at her best doing what first won her praise on Broadway: she spoofs the sillier musicomedies of the '20s till every inanity glitters, and with a magic that in the very act of murdering old musicals can bring them back to life. Today's grim musical dramas are not as funny targets, nor has Carol as fine a touch for them, but her Switchblade Bess, at least, has inspired moments. If much of Show Girl rather smacks of family jokes, it is at any rate a well-known family-Marlene Dietrich, Sophie Tucker...
...magic phrase soon assumes the flavor of a conjuror's patter, with the difference that the trick is neither cleverly nor effectively done. The professor or impartial committee (like that which drafted the Draper Report in late 1959) advises; the President requests an appropriation. Finally, the Congress authorizes and appropriates perhaps $3.8 billion for both military and economic assistance, a mere four per cent of the annual budget...
There is nothing even remotely trivial in these reform proposals. Many of them have been obvious for some time, waiting only for an active President to execute them. The magic in foreign aid must always work slowly, but unless it is conjured with intelligently, it cannot work...