Word: magically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Democrats began to take a more relaxed view of the President's program. "Why adopt draconian measures?" said one Senate aide. "There's no magic in a 1 million-bbl.-per-day oil cutback that would deflate the economy and shoot up unemployment. There has still been no coherent, clear explanation why we should put on this hair shirt." Said Democratic Whip Robert Byrd: "Let's take first things first-let's stop the recessionary slide, create jobs, cut taxes." Similar advice came from the citadel of conservative economic policy. Arthur Burns cautioned: "The President...
Auden liked to quote Paul Valèry to the effect that poems are never completed, only abandoned. Some of these have been abandoned too soon. Even so, the old master has his moments of magic, turning his nouns into verbs and moving more often than not in a seven-syllable line that sounds like simple conversation but conceals much art. In "Nocturne," though most of the world is asleep, "someone in the small hours,/ for the money or love, is/ always awake and at work./ Here young radicals plotting/ to blow up a building, there/ a frowning poet rifling...
...introduces him to the world of popular music and drugs. Harry listens to hot jazz (remember, this is 1927), snorts a little white powder and generally acts confused. Eventually Hermine and her jazz musician crony Pablo (Pierre Clementi) decide that Harry is prepared and usher him into their Magic Theater. As rendered by Director Haines, the experience is like being sealed inside a demoniac color television set. The Magic Theater experiences convince Harry, in the words of the novel, to "see the ruins of my being as fragments of the divine." Lesser mortals would have just called the TV repairman...
Tour Guide. Gardner does not restrict himself to century-old American settings. He is also at home in classical antiquity (Jason and Medea) and the late Dark Ages (Grendel). He fills pages with royalty and serfs, knights, monks, prisoners and jailers. Magic is taken for granted; humble facts are made to seem miraculous. A lesser writer might stretch the profligate inventiveness of this single book into a long career...
Until the Washington Post ran a routine story recently on the marriage of Post Watergate Sleuth Bob Woodward to Fort Worth Star-Telegram Reporter Francine Barnard, the magic names of Woodward and Partner Carl Bernstein had been suspiciously absent from the paper. Their familiar double byline has not appeared in the Post since September, and they have been missing from the talk-show circuit...