Word: magics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magic of the new technology is that it allows the candidate to identify and respond to the demands of the electorate as never before. At the push of a button, he can command a list of the names of voters who support him-and thus require only his limited attention-or a "sway" list of independent and undecided voters, who should get more of his time. Properly programmed, the computer can identify subgroups by occupation, ethnic origin, even hobbies, then dispatch "personal" letters, circulars or telephone messages as needed. Surveys have shown that personal messages, even when identified as coming...
Shakespeare's Thane is a man possessed by his own craving for power. He is destroyed by the evil within himself, not, as Polanski would have it, by witchly auguries of doom. Polanski is most at home dealing with black magic, and Macbeth's second meeting with the witches ("Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble . . .") is expanded into a veritable convention, with dozens of naked, withered old crones cackling and drooling all over themselves. It looks like a remnant of Rosemary's Baby. Polanski's affection for the supernatural is so unrestrained that many of the movie...
...beginning to fear that many schools are adopting the new methods without making teachers apply them systematically. Dropping conventional constraints makes teaching "absolutely more difficult," says Lillian Weber, associate professor of education at the City College of New York. "You can't just stand there and wait for magic to happen...
...rafters, the Rev. Eugene Monick, 42, intoned: "Do you renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world . . . and the sinful desires of the flesh . . . ?" Then he cupped water onto the forehead of each of the baptismal candidates and daubed them with Magic Marker in the sign of the cross. Afterward the congregation hoisted the newly baptized onto their shoulders and paraded around the room...
Yankee Enginuity. Their basic failure is not choice of subject but lack of talent, and the error of putting message before magic. Anyone considering the folly of seeking topicality in children's books might ponder the evolution of one railroad theme in books for toddlers. The literary genre began with The Little Engine That Could (Platt & Munk; 1930), an Establishment epic in which a coal-burning hero learned to serve the military-industrial complex by applying Yankee enginuity ("I think I can, I think I can ... I know I can, I know I can . . ."). Then came Tootle (Golden Press...