Word: magically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CONTROLLING INFLATION: I have no magic answer for how to reduce the inflation that accompanies full employment. But there are a series of steps each of which could contribute: There should be continued emphasis on programs to make unemployed youths [who can be paid low wages] more qualified for the mainstream job vacancies that appear. Substantial action is needed to deregulate areas of the economy where government stifles competition and holds up prices. Transportation is a key example. Actions that reduce the competition from imports should be avoided. Most important, we need an income policy. It cannot be across...
...fairy tale, it's magic, it's entertainment," says Choreographer George Balanchine. "It's like beautiful flowers: they don't tell you anything, but they make you feel good." Balanchine is talking about the ballet known in Germany as Der Nussknacker, in France as Casse-Noĩsette and throughout the English-speaking world as The Nutcracker. Not even Walt Disney could top it. Right on stage a Christmas tree grows magically to an enormous height. A nutcracker doll springs to life, defends its young mistress, Marie, against an army of huge mice, then turns into...
Today, for the dance companies of the U.S. and Europe, Nutcracker is invariably a boxoffice bonanza. "It's what pays the bills for every company," said Deborah Morris of the Theater Ballet of San Francisco. For audiences it provides escape into a world of genuine magic. After her fourth Nutcracker...
...stage, she confesses, when an opera singer wants to begin crying silently to the audience, "Love me. Save me." Such occasions do not occur often, but when they do, it is invariably because the singer is worrying about the effect she is making. "Always looking for the magic traps you," she says. "When you've done your homework and understand every nuance of the characterization and music, it somehow frees you. Ironically, when you forget about putting out magic, it happens...
...another the magic happens often these days for the speaker -a radiantly pretty mezzo-soprano from New Jersey who did not attend her first opera until she was 16, could not read music until 20 and probably would never have entered music school if a friend had not dared her. Her pals call her "Flicka," but to the world of music, she is Frederica von Stade of the Metropolitan Opera and a clamoring chorus of other companies in the U.S. and Europe...