Word: magics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that asbestos produced in their own lifetimes but also to all of the residue produced in our own? Perhaps in a university like ours, endowed with such a wealth of creative talent and scientific resources, it may still be possible to free ourselves from the malignancies of the magic mineral...
...sense of childish innocence, sinister, occult and perverse notions filtered into the stories through their roots in country lore. If you take this book to a quiet place, where the noises of an increasingly cynical and materialistic world don't penetrate, it's not hard to remember the ancient magic of earth, seed, and plough...
...time for an afternoon flight. His office at 641 Huntington Ave. is clearly a temporary measure, dominated not by a massive oaken desk, but by a few filing cabinets and bulletin boards. There is another map of Africa, perforated by colored push-pins, and an exhortation, carefully written in magic marker on lined yellow paper, to remember that "I" is the least important word and "we" is the most. His inspirational message is obscured when the office door is open. Karefa-Smart maintains a more substantial address out in Weston with his wife, but, from all appearances, he is only...
...official. In Damascus, students marched in a May Day parade carrying banners that read "We reject all peaceful settlements" and "Kissinger is a cheap American Jewish conspirator." In Jerusalem, waiting to greet the Secretary, one Israeli commented: "The magician is returning. We just hope he is not bringing black magic...
Those who believe in the truths of fiction have always been sure that enough talent could work such magic, and in The Barking Deer Jonathan Rubin shows considerable talent. Even so, the author wisely does not try to capture the war in its dreadful magnitudes of size and duration. He ambushes a piece of it from a Montagnard village in the central Vietnamese highlands, circa 1964, just before the machinery of destruction began to dwarf its human masters...