Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cinema, that still most magic medium-portable, cheap, displayable in any place at any hour, infinitely capable of recording knowledge, vastly surpassing TV in screen size, picture quality and color-theoretically ought to be a universal teaching tool. Currently, four U.S. schools are saturating themselves in film in an attempt to make the ideal a reality...
...United States which would be the equivalent of Chinese attitudes toward Japan during the forties. This effort is not likely to succeed unless we actually choose to perform the role which Peking has assigned to us. The notion that the Chinese model of revolution is a kind of magic formula which will work everywhere in the "underdeveloped world" once certain buttons are pressed in Peking is a notion based on the same fear of the diabolical cleverness of Communists which we used to direct to Moscow. Not only does the strategy require the existence of a local political situation favorable...
...sachets and the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The New York Botanical Garden's 500-ft. tropical rain garden, adorned with a climbing cissus vine and rock pool, was back to back with Woolworth's counter, where salesgirls touted 880 packages of Venus Fly Trap, billed as "Nature's Magic Toy," which "Catches insects! Eats hamburger!" At the huge Kodak garden there were nervous flamingos and the Kodak "Smile Girl," who gradually wilted as she tried to keep her cheeks puffed and her lips curled upwards for half an hour at a time. Still, hundreds of people thought...
...permit divorce troubles many Catholics. At the Vatican Council's concluding session, Melchite Archbishop Elias Zoghbi denounced the "subtle casuistry" of the church: "It happens that after ten or 20 years of marriage, they suddenly discover an impediment that permits everything to be resolved as though by magic. Our faithful are sometimes stupefied and scandalized by it all." He suggested that the Catholic Church allow divorce on certain grounds, such as abandonment, as the Orthodox churches...
Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, professor of History and Government, stated that "the notion that the Chinese model of revolution is a kind of magic formula which will work everywhere in the `underdeveloped world' once certain buttons are pressed in Peking is a notion based on the same fear of the disbolical cleverness of Communists which we used to direct to Moscow...