Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since the war, the University has felt that it is not getting its share of the best students from various parts of the country. The name "Harvard" no longer works the magic of yore, and the Administration decided that it would have to get out and compete for students with other colleges if it hoped to keep up its academic standards. Last fall, it took the Varsity Club and the Crimson Key into this program of "beating the bushes," with the specific job of stimulating Harvard Clubs that had not been doing effective work. The aim of the whole program...
...paint nudes and landscapes in a nice, decorative, pleasant style of his own. London Sunday Times Critic Eric Newton has supplied some loftier adjectives for it. "One must be content," he wrote, taking a deep breath, "with saying that Christopher Wood possessed the gift of making everyday things both magical and mystical, and of performing the miracle endlessly. The ingredients of his magic are things available to us all-boats, white houses, stone walls, fishing nets, but the essence of magic is that it is inexplicable...
...devils in the 14th Century to commemorate a home-town boy named Duvallon, who sold his soul to Satan on a Christmas night. For 50 years thereafter, Duvallon was able to tote huge pine trees about on his shoulders and to float up & down the River Arc in a magic, unsinkable jacket. Satan at last came to collect, of course, suffused with devilish glee. Duvallon slipped his wife's wedding ring on his own finger for protection, jumped on his horse and galloped off to Rome. The Pope prescribed three Masses to foil Duvallon's pursuer...
Last Close-Ups? The Thomas epic, Out of This World, was written by 27-year-old Lowell Jr. in the man-on-a-magic-carpet tone his father favors. The tone still works; the book has already sold 100,000 copies and climbed high on the bestseller lists...
...tales in this volume, culled from his nine books of short stories, give readers their first new chance in more than a decade to take a full evening of that old Blackwood magic. In general, it still works. In fact, the Tales may win for his old age (he is now 81) a literary reputation he never enjoyed at the height of his fame. They show him to be one of the most original writers in the line that descends from Edgar Poe to the authors of Mandrake the Magician, and in which he has few peers (some of them...