Word: magically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dallas to renominate Ronald Reagan 12 years ago, the incumbent President had already achieved mythic status. He led his Democratic opponent, Walter Mondale, by an impressive 14 points in the opinion polls. The re-election campaign was considered to be a virtual formality. Even Reagan's opponents conceded his "magic" and had all but given up seething about it. "Not since Dwight Eisenhower," wrote TIME in its convention issue, "has the U.S. public felt such fondness for its leader." TIME's Hugh Sidey declared of Reagan, "He is a refrain from Stars and Stripes Forever...
...people talked of Reagan's magic and meant it as a compliment. Today people talk of Clinton's trickery, and do not mean to be flattering. Reagan's rhetorical skills made him the "Great Communicator" (good); Clinton's make him "Slick Willie" (bad). These are journalists' characterizations, but the perception is widely shared, fairly or unfairly, by the public...
...disappointment if they think they can somehow enjoy the benefits of the Republican small-government revolution while President Clinton protects them from the cost. Republicans are understandably furious at Clinton for implying that he can produce this alchemy (although Dole is now promising the same magic). And they are understandably annoyed that the voters, having invited them to conduct their revolution, should now seem inclined to punish them for doing so. It's hard not to sympathize: the Republicans made the rare mistake, upon taking over Congress, of acting on their principles--after 14 years and two G.O.P. Administrations...
...note in "Lost Magic" that "Terror now lurks in the shadows like a stranger." I suggest that brotherhood is there also. The picture accompanying the story shows a wounded white man cradling a more seriously wounded black man in his arms. The world's salvation lies in such love being more powerful than fear, not in better security and bomb-detection devices. CHRISTINE KERBSTAT Julian, California...
Like the Main Street that guides customers into Disney's Magic Kingdom, the convention floor today is a construct, a shell, a dim, burnished reflection of what was once reality. They may even call the roll of the states to stir old memories of exciting summer nights from long ago, much as the first notes of Earth Angel or In the Still of the Night can set middle-aged hearts beating faster...