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Word: magically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still fun," he insists. "There's nothing so immediate or intense in business." He still feels the need to push himself: "You have to live as vibrantly as you can." And all the old magic of the game is still there. He was delighted by watching the Dallas defensive backs perform in game films. "Honestly, it was like seeing a ballet. It was just beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Testing the Velvet Hammer | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

Halloween came 10 days early Saturday morning as sorceress Sarah Mleczko waved her magic field hockey stick, scoring all of Harvard's goals to bewitch Cornell, 3-0, at Soldiers Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mleczko Hat Trick Helps Stickwomen to 3-0 Victory | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

Kennedy. The magic name. Thirty four years since the first of the brothers, Joe Jr., died when his plane exploded over England. Fifteen years since John was shot in Dallas. Ten years since Bobby was shot in Los Angeles. A lot of idealism has washed away since then; a lot of liberals have perceived a rising of the dark. And now Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., sometime teacher, sometime reviewer, sometime adviser, sometime historian, but always consummate storyteller, has come out with a massive remembrance of Bobby: Robert Kennedy and His Times. And the times, for Schlesinger, rise and fall very...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: The Historian as Romanticist | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...been charmed by the magic, like so many others, and charmed by his own status as a friend and trusted adviser. And that is perhaps the real secret of the Kennedys' popularity--their exceptional personal ability to make people feel trusted and respected, to create a large circle of insiders. The ignored, the abused, the poor-- the traditional outsiders--can find a sympathetic ear in a seat of power, and very suddenly feel they are on the inside...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: The Historian as Romanticist | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...center of this tour de force is The Fisherman and His Wife, the folk tale about the man who releases his magic catch after the fish promises to grant his wishes. In the traditional version, the fisherman's wife, Hsebill, ruins good fortune with her greed. In Grasss ich-theology, the ageless narrator tells his equally timeless mate Ilsebill how he threw the fish back into the Baltic after it had agreed to bring him knowledge of the outside world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Turbot de Force | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

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