Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BUFFALO vs. VANCOUVER: Scotty Bowman proved he could take a team other than the Canadiens and make it work, but whether the magic will extend into the play-offs remains an open question. Nevertheless, the Sabres should sweep the Canucks, whose specialty is penalty minutes rather than offense or defense...
...thought." The Archbishop reasoned that since existence would have to be part of any such perfect and necessary being, this being must actually exist. This is "too good to be true," says one skeptic, and even one of its current defenders admits that it "looks too much like word magic...
...basketball one of the most exciting and unpredictable sports in the country today. A talented newcomer can walk into a moribund basketball program and make his school a conference contender in his first year and a national champion before he departs for the pros. Last season, the aptly named Magic Johnson finished his sophomore year by tucking the national title under Michigan State's arm, then went to the Los Angeles Lakers. The national exposure that comes with a trip to the N.C.A.A. tournament can help in fund raising and in keeping dorms and classes filled. After Larry Bird...
...George S. McGovern (D--S.D.). But in the absence of a burning emotional issue like Vietnam, the Anderson campaign is distinguished less by moral fervor than by intellectual smugness. There is a second anti-draft candidate today, but the attention he attracts is due too much to the magic of his name with the sub-rational masses, while Anderson's charm lies in a novel new variety of common sense which, we are led to believe, is best appreciated by the elite...
...Jack rewarded rather than punished for taking objects from the giant? (A possible answer: Jack paid with his mother's cow for the beans that grew into the giant's beanstalk. Possible comeback: But he didn't pay the giant.) Does Jack succeed because of magic, good luck or his own efforts? (The story includes some evidence of all three.) The students also mull over different characterizations of Jack and the giant in two different versions of the story...