Word: magics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guest speakers from the highest ranks of government. One Faculty member later called Kissinger's seminar "essentially a show. In a way, it was impressive just to see who he would bring." Secretary McNamara and the Joint Chiefs, for example, were among the visitors to the seminar. And the magic name of Harvard was their drawing card...
...that the political magic of money is limitless. Money can help make a candidate a household word-but it cannot guarantee that the household will vote for him. Too many other factors determine an election. No matter how much he might have spent on campaigning, it is most unlikely that Barry Goldwater could have defeated Lyndon Johnson for the presidency in 1964. In 1970, Industrialist Norton Simon, despite a bottomless purse, could not win the Republican senatorial nomination in California from the vulnerable, venerable incumbent, George Murphy. Regardless of his gifts, or the size of his war chest, a Republican...
...ocher, a substance used for symbolic purposes by Neanderthal man. Reporting on the discovery last week, Solecki said: "These men were trying to ensure a successful hunt by the ceremonial treatment of one of the animals." In other words, Neanderthal man resorted to a form of hunter's magic...
...converted to Catholicism, read constantly and began writing. The Moviegoer was preceded by two "dreadful" unpublished novels that took five years to write. "The first," he recalls, "was 1,000 pages long. It was would-be Wolfe. The second was life and love in Saranac Lake -another Magic Mountain...
People out there have a simple system to learn from. The sun comes up, travels across the sky, gives life to all things, goes down behind mountains and lights the moon-its magic even in darkness. It is easy to understand and creates men of great humility, men who are not completely confused about what is going on around, who can look directly at themselves and their families, who can try to work with the land and not against it. Our technologies can deny nature successfully for considerable times, but our apocalypse will be because we have perverted something basic...