Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Immediately after scoring its first goal early in the second quarter, Amherst pulled back its halfs into a tight defensive unit. Ohiri was never clear, as two or three defensemen guarded him in his "magic circle." When Mike Kramer slowed down on the left wing, Lord Jeff fullback Bradford Collins pounced on the ball and stole it. Harvard had dozens of corner kicks, but Amherst heads were there to deflect the ball away...
...Bettley admits that the average person's casual washing is not likely to cause him trouble, but feels that housewives, cleaning women, dishwashers and others constantly exposed to soap are especially vulnerable to soap-caused skin trouble. He thinks that the scientists daily performing molecular magic should get busy devising something better than soap. To be generally accepted by the public, it would have to be both inexpensive and solid, like a soap bar-requirements that the special liquid cleansers now on the market fail to meet. Dr. Bettley challenges modern chemical science to produce such a cleanser...
...colleagues strained for panoramas -the vast valleys and rugged mountain chains of a newly self-conscious America -Inness was quite satisfied to paint whatever lay just beyond his own backyard. Last week the Paine Art Center, in Oshkosh, Wis., displayed 27 Inness paintings, a pleasant reminder of how much magic can be wrung from the gathering of a storm, the first nips of autumn, or simply the coming on of evening...
Africans treat soccer as a form of refereed tribal warfare. Nigeria once upbraided a Ghanaian team for hexing the Nigerian goalie with black magic. In 1959 a game in the Belgian Congo between the Luluas and the Balubas touched off a three-day war in which 20 people were killed. Fortnight ago, the former French colony of Gabon sent a team to Brazzaville in the neighboring ex-French Congo* for a game of soccer. The toll so far: nine dead, 70 injured, and several thousand citizens transformed into refugees...
...love for Regine Olsen, whose girl-child beauty haunted him all his life, he combines all his various talents in his wisest answer to the persisting theme of thought v. beauty, mind v. soul: I write, he said. Too stupid to fly, Too impure to do real magic, I, To work the transformation in a wink, Must painfully and tediously think...