Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Borges focuses his nearly sightless eyes somewhere above the Sanders Theater ceiling. If the word charismatic can describe a man talking about the art of poetry, it describes Borges delivering the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures on "this craft of verse." Borges creates a personalized version of the same subtle magic which translates the readers of his "fictions" into a dream-context without their perceiving the change...
...audience realizes it has been under a spell inside Borges' imagination in a suspended moment before the instantaneously enthusiastic, unanimously venerative applause. Even those unfamiliar with his work and reputation experience the Borges magic. One little Cambridge lady, knowing something had happened but unsure what it was, bubbled after the fourth lecture. "Is that the man that was speaking? Is he Swedish or English or what? Oh, he's so wonderful...
That mythical magic of Bonnie and Clyde just will not fade. Now television is using them in a smartly satirical...
...four-minute mile may be in the offing. Roy Shaw and Jim Baker flirted with the magic barrier on the boards, and should crack it with the added push of Doug Hardin...
...first of the Cowles' all-stars was W. Palmer Dixon '25. Cowles didn't have a set of magic rules. He picked out a player's strongest point and worked on it. He taught Dixon, who had an uncanny ability to sense shots, a strong position game. Able to intercept and return anything thrown at him. Dixon was nearly unbeatable. He took the National Singles title...