Word: magically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Different from all these writers, Ralph Manheim in "Ballade" captures a good deal of Coleridgian magic, and incidentally refreshes a form often too much like a metrical exercise in other hands, by a variation that gives it something of the fluent melody of terzarima. John Sherry Mangan, an enthusiastic an energetic experimenter, indicates something of the range of his work in two sharply contrasting poems: "Disoriented", sapphics in which a strictly classic treatment of form encloses a romantic elaboration and decoration of feeling; and "the Passing of Shaughnessy" which fuses the fantasy and conceit of pre-classical phrasing in English...
...transient guests. M. Citroën, highly optimistic, had once said: "A new country is thrown open to auto tourists. Tourists, eager for new sights and new experiences, soon will be able to make this once hazardous trip with ease and dispatch. They will be deeply stirred by the magic of this unexplored land...
There was a touch of magic in that July morning, 18 months ago, when the front pages of the daily press broke out with the announcement of Edward W. Bok's largesse?"$100,000 for a peace plan, come all ye dreamers of wealth, ye hopers for peace?$100,000 for a practical peace plan...
Again, almost a year ago, there was another touch of magic when in the Philadelphia Academy of Music, before 3,500 eager citizens, John W. Davis, at that time not the ex-candidate for the presidency, but the ex-Ambassador to Great Britain, stood on the platform and delivered a piece of paper, a check good for $50,000 of Mr. Bok's legal money, to Professor Charles Herbert Levermore...
...Stafford '26, University quarterback and star of the coming Pi Eta show, gave a dazzling exhibition of magic and sleight of hand tricks last night in the Hotel Bancroft at Worcester during the concert of the University Instrumental Clubs given there under the auspices of the Harvard Club of that city...