Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your Essay on "The Golden Age of Sport" [June 2] is an excellent analysis of sport in the 1960s. The magic eye of the TV camera has had its impact in no uncertain fashion, and I hope it will be there to foot the bill and thrill the world for many years to come...
Military pay should be increased sufficiently to attract, in the absence of hostilities, at least two and one-half million men. There is no magic in this figure. It corresponds to what, a few years ago, was acknowledged to be the approximate "peacetime" level of the armed forces, less one or two hundred thousand that we believe might be replaced by civilian employees during the coming years. Nobody can exactly estimate the pay scale required to reach this goal; but pay scales must be set with some goal in mind, and this should be the goal...
...forces away and thus allowed the guerrillas to enter the villages not only as reformers but also as effective champions of nationalism in opposition to a foreign invader. Mao Tse-tung rode to victory on these two waves of support. It was foreign occupation of China and not some magic Maoist technique which was decisive...
...allies "offered and paid compensation" to brokerage house customer's men to push Pentron stock. Two New York defendants were enlisted in the campaign: Paul Heischuber, 27, a former partner in a small brokerage house, and Mario Trombona, 38, a Manhattan public relations man. As if by magic, daily 1966 trading volume in Pentron soared from around 10,000 shares in February to as much as 188,000 in April, while the stock reached a high of $3.75. "During this surge of buying interest," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Lawrence Newman drily, "the defendants sold their stock to the public...
From Dark to Light. "You know, when you go by on a train," Hopper once said, "everything looks beautiful. But if you stop, it becomes drab." Hopper recaptured the magic of his first fleeting impression by eliminating detail. His canvases are generalized, his faces chastely drawn. But if this spared him the flaws of everyday existence, it also left him detached from the hurly-burly of everyday events. Hopper's canvases are universally lonely...