Word: magical
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...have to sneak out of people's houses anymore, and I don't get grounded for staying out late. But fear and magic are partners, and one disappears with the other. I learned this riding the lawnmower, with headphones." -"Pop Adolescence" by Richard Beck
...says. “I think students will always want to be an exemplar in their own right, rather than taking the easy way out.”He smiles earnestly when asked for advice. “You have to believe in the possibility of magic a little...
...drilled holes. Every day or two - depending on how fast the sap was running out of the trees - the farmers would empty out the buckets into larger containers or tanks and haul the watery substance to a "sugar house" usually built in the woods. Here's where the magic happened...
...library system on behalf of all of Harvard. “I think the library does represent the collective interest of the entire Faculty of Arts and Sciences—and beyond that, the entire University,” Darnton said. Smith got his surprise, after all. MAGIC OF NUMBERS After debriefing a nearly full Sanders Theatre about his two-year plan for meeting the deficit, Smith made clear just how steeped he has been in the tumult of FAS finances over the past six months—and his listeners were both grateful and perhaps even pitying...
...tyke on the playground what a fairy tale is, and any of the following phrases might turn up: princesses, singing mice, mermaids, fairy godmothers. Fairy tales are defined by magic, which is why Kurt Scwhitters’ clever but often unimaginative book “Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales,” newly translated by Jack Zipes, contains only two or three real “fairy tales.” The rest is a dark medley of fables, tall tales, parables, and even word games—all of them dark, most of them with unhappy...