Word: magics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ground that they fear addiction-a meaningless concern on the eve of death. Too little medication lets the doctor pretend, subconsciously, that the patient is not sick enough to die and may betray the doctor's unwillingness to admit to himself that he is not a "magic healer" who can save every patient...
...current conversion to civilian products is the second major change that Norris has made in the nature of its business. The company, founded in 1930, began life as a maker of magic coins, trick mirrors, chauffeurs' badges and dispensers for toilet paper and soap. Before World War II, however, it developed the first seamless cartridge casing, and by V-J day it had "produced more kinds and sizes of artillery cases than any other contractor," according to a company brochure. During the Korean conflict, Norris operated the largest single plant producing cartridge cases for the U.N. forces...
Just as the Soviets once mythologized the tractor and the assembly line as the magic elements that would help Russia overcome its backwardness, they are now placing a mystical faith in modern technology as the solution to their myriad of problems. The Russians have even done a complete turnabout on computers, which for years they dismissed as both unnecessary and distinctly un-Marxist. Cybernetics, the old argument went, stressed technical and managerial facts rather than social and political forces as the decisive factors in administering societies...
...rain bow trout to a diminutive plastic air plane, exhale a delicate poetry of sur realist juxtaposition; their like has not been seen in America since Joseph Cornell's boxes. Memory and touch, a poignant archaeology of the self: at its best, Paris' work is pure magic...
...only candidate to sense the real feeling of the people: "He truly cares. He is truly concerned. He is real." I pick up Impact 72: A Newspaper for Young Americans and scan the inside topic, "Right On, by George C. Wallace;" "Charisma! Charisma! Charisma!"; "The Wisdom of Wallace: The Magic of Dreams, The Fabric of Freedom..."; "No Generation Gap in the Wallace Family." Other themes are just as predictable--the old values made new, George Wallace standing up boldly, honestly, for an America of free enterprise, religion, and the family...