Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nation's number-one-ranked Crimson squash team, yesterday was just another workout at the ol' gym. Harvard performed its magic on the Elis once again, smashing Yale, 9-0, at Hemenway...
...then the African night, which, more than elsewhere, seems an abnegation of the conscious world. MMBA, "miles and miles of bloody Africa," and it all falls into black magic void...
...works thus: he places charms upon the animal and then releases it in the direction of the person who is the target of the spell. For help with childbirth, he drapes the skin of an eland on the woman -- the eland being much like the cow, which possesses magic powers. In order to bring rain, the laibon places a dead frog on the ground, belly up, with a charm upon it. Within 24 hours, before the frog decays, the rain will fall...
...magic evening light comes across the Laikipia Plateau, and the baboons straggle in from their day's browsings among the acacia flowers. They sit and socialize on the lower rocks of their high kopje, grooming one another with a sweet absorption, playing with their babies. Like almost everyone and everything in Africa, they seem profoundly tribal. Another troop of baboons arrives, 100 yards away, and each tribe stares at the other with a nervous intensity across the lovely evening light...
...could have a magic wand, I would be for a compulsory system," says Moskos. That would raise serious questions. Congress has the right to raise armies, but the Constitution does not give it the right to conscript people to work in civilian occupations. The White House, along with many conservatives and libertarians as well as liberals, opposes national service on the ground that it would be an unnecessary intervention by the Government into people's lives. Some wonder how a program could be enforced. "What are you going to have?" asks Alan Weisberg, a youth-employment consultant in Oakland. "Criminal...