Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, Administration aides leaked inflated budget totals in advance so that the final budget, even if a record, would look modest by comparison. Last week the White House announced that the budget for fiscal 1967 will probably be somewhere between $110 billion and $115 billion, a breach of the magic $100 billion figure and a much greater rise over this year's announced $99.7 billion than most people had expected. This time there seems little chance that the figure can be changed substantially...
...innards of a piano and sounds like an oversexed harpsichord. Rather than treat each scene with "big masses of symphonic sound," he takes the opening theme and works endless variations on it. It is not Brahms, but in the shadowy world of the movie house it works a magic all its own; besides, who goes to films to hear music...
...CINCPAC, and then not only resume his pose but take up my question precisely where he had left it. Each of the four formal sessions ran far past the scheduled hour and a half-mostly, I think, because everyone involved enjoyed it. I frequently became so fascinated with the magic Berks worked so swiftly with his clay that I left questions hanging while watching the Westmoreland image emerge. But either Berks or the general was able to compensate for that, usually with reminders that the correspondent had better get on with...
Died. Lynn Thorndike, 83, medieval scholar and longtime (1924-50) Columbia University history professor, who in his eight-volume History of Magic and Experimental Science disputed the notion that the Middle Ages' magicians were charlatans, regarding them instead as "experimental scientists," and tracing into the 18th century a residue of the occult that affected even such logic-minded men as Sir Isaac Newton; following a stroke; in Manhattan...
...life is a forest of symbols," in fate, destiny, demons and spells, numerology and divination by study of birds and their behavior. What saved him from being-as so many mystics are-a bore and an embarrassment to plain men was his artist's eye and the controlled magic of his words, which made him a tragic novelist rather than a tiresome navel gazer...