Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...except one of the Democrats' statewide candidates squeaked into office with Harriman. The exception: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.,† whose magic name had been expected to push him ahead of Harriman. The man who beat Junior: Republican Jacob Koppel Javits, 50, a hard-working New York Congressman who is far more New Dealish than many Democrats. (He voted against the Taft-Hartley law, for continuing federal rent control,) Statewide, he ran 176,000 ahead of Junior, 36,000 ahead of Harriman. His total vote - 2,590,631 - made him 1954's biggest vote-getter...
Chemistry is one of the sciences that became important before it knew what it was doing. The old, half-magician alchemists of the Middle Ages were acquainted with many useful compounds and reactions, but they had no rational theories about them. Early chemists, dropping the magic, gradually developed general principles to explain what happened in their test tubes. The most useful of these was the concept of "chemical bonds": the forces that make atoms stick together as the molecules that form nearly everything on earth. Though the chemists learned a lot about the bonding forces and took skillful advantage...
...plot concerns a so-called "Collateral Campaign" to celebrate the Austro-Hungarian Emperor's 70th jubilee. The campaign grinds along like a slow bus to nowhere. Committees beget committees, pressure groups stall each other in what one critic described as the dance of rainmakers who have lost their magic. The ruling class sketched by Author Musil has lost not only its magic, but its faith in God, its fear of the Devil and its confidence in itself. It has opinions but no convictions, techniques but no principles, ideals but no beliefs. In short, its troubles may be more timely...
...gave the accolade to four hit plays: The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, Tea and Sympathy, The Teahouse of the August Moon, The Confidential Clerk; and to six financial failures: The Golden Apple, Take a Giant Step, The Immoralist, The Girl on the Via Flaminia, In the Summer House, The Magic and the Loss...
...Netherlands, Dick Ket, who died at 37 in 1940, painted brilliantly in the school known as magic realism. Some European critics were sure that Ket's 44 paintings, many of them self-portraits, would eventually yield enduring fame. But the young artist, conscious of a weak heart and the imminence of his own death, was careless with his materials, bought pigments and oils in the nearby hardware store. One day in 1951, a rich Dutch butcher paused to admire his prized Ket, a self-portrait that was as exact and detailed as a reflection in a still pond...