Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guitar, I'd be so happy." Grace Sands went out one day and made a $10 down payment on a $65 guitar. Tommy taught himself to play and sing. He never amounted to more than a $52-a-week hillbilly bawler for a Hollywood TV station-until one magic night last January, when a single hour on a TV network turned him into the U.S. teenagers' latest rage...
...Lived. Southern enthusiasts like to dream that, had Jackson lived, he and Lee might well have made up for the material deficiencies of the Confederacy. In this absorbing book, Texas-born Historian Vandiver (Rice Institute) does not hazard a guess, but notes that Stonewall's magic was greatly aided by the mediocrity of his opponents. Tactics that bewildered Banks and Pope and Hooker might well have foundered against commanders like Grant and Sherman. As it was, Jackson's greatest coups were repeatedly frustrated by the dogged resistance of the often outwitted but seldom outfought Union soldier...
...phonograph was to see how far the turntable could throw a horse chestnut. Smith knows he does not have a chance to prevail in the golden age of the child psychologist. He is simply a brave, worried man who knows that boys "don't want science. They want magic...
Often, of course, Hitchcock realizes this. Occasional implicit grotesqueness along with the horrible images, the examples of practicable black magic, and the demonstrations that crime does pay after all clearly take advantage of what books can do and screens cannot...
...best in describing the island's magic which "each day had a tranquillity, a timelessness, about it, so that you wished it would never end." It is Author Durrell's special gift to evoke that sense of timelessness through vivid still lifes of nature and the natives: "Across the mouth of the bay a sun-bleached boat would pass, rowed by a brown fisherman in tattered trousers, standing in the stern and twisting an oar in the water like a fish's tail. He would raise one hand in lazy salute, and across the still, blue water...