Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Magic Slogan. By their votes and by their abstentions (the percentage of stay-at-homes was the largest since 1881), the voters dealt a crushing blow to the "parties of yesteryear," in De Gaulle's scornful phrase; parties that represent no "doctrine" but only a "clientele." The election went far toward resolving the conflict between France's old. divisively individualist parliamentary tradition and the strong presidential system that De Gaulle believes is essential if France is to achieve stability and self-respect...
...candidate seemingly needed td" win was the Gaullists' magic slogan on the ballot: "For the Fifth Republic." In Marseille, U.N.R. Candidate Yves Le Tac, a stranger to the area, who had survived two assassination attempts by the SAO in France, went into hiding throughout the campaign for fear of SAO retaliation. In the end, he led all candidates, including a millionaire shipowner who is one of the region's few popular capitalists. Independent Deputy Edouard Frédéric-Dupont, who has presided over his Paris district so long that he is called the "Archbishop...
...Always there is the sense of seeing nature from within, of literally being sucked into the guts of things. Landuyt's great achievement is the suspense he manages to generate, as if each of his oozing, pulsating interiors were about to pop. This is the magic he is after-to catch the seed just as it is about to burst into life, "the supreme moment of utter standstill and containment before the eruption of form...
...must counter witchcraft with witchcraft, and devised elaborate de-oathing rites, but they were not always successful. Once, when authorities persuaded tribesmen to abjure their bonds to the Mau Mau by sacrificing a goat, a Mau Mau agent slaughtered two dogs, nullifying the "goat oath" with the more potent magic of the "dog oath...
...first Folk Festival at Newport, R.I. Her clear-lighted voice poured over the 13,000 people collected there and chilled them with surprise. The record-company leg-and-fang men closed in. "Would you like to meet Mitch, Baby?" said a representative of Columbia Records, dropping the magic name of Mitch Miller, who is Columbia's top pop artists-and-repertory man when he isn't waving to his mother...