Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wealth of visual ideas, its deft use of music, its passages of bitter-sweet humor, stylized playfulness and social satire, the picture recalls the best of Charlie Chaplin and Rene Clair. But it is also an original work of art, touched in its finest moments with the elusive magic of poetry...
...When the Atom Bomb exploded, the fears that had always haunted the febrile brain of human beings--fear of death, fear of living, fear of pain and hunger, fear of magic and the night found new roots in the dark uncertainties of life...
Today, the faculty consists of 14 men, many of whom have had experience in government and foreign affairs. Thus, the ratio of students to teachers is surprisingly small--approximately 4 to 1. "There's no magic in the number 50," Stewart comments, "but there is magic in keeping the school on a small basis...
...world circulation standards, DeWitt Wallace, the Digest's founder, owner and boss, is the most successful editor in history. Wallace and his wife, Lila Bell Wallace, the Digest's co-editor, between them seem to have discovered a magic formula. What...
...years the Israelis brought in 665,000 newcomers, more than doubling the population. It was as though the U.S. were.to import 50 million new people every year. At one point "Operation Ali Baba" was flying in 1,000 Jews a day from hostile Iraq; "Operation Magic Carpet" flew 55,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel. It was too much for the frail young country to stand...