Word: magics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...provide some excitement when Butch Hobson's eighth-inning home run moved them into sixth place on the single-season team homer list. The only numbers that mean much at this point, though, are these: the Sox trail by three, and the Yanks' magic number is five...
...bases that concept on a series of well-founded assumptions. Ravenal claims there is no "magic number" of missiles at which the Soviets will decide they have the necessary superiority to attack the U.S. Instead the crucial question, he says, is where they might attack. And he is convincing in his explanation that it is not our cities, but our weapons, that would be their first target--in an attempt to limit the damage the aggressor would incur in a retaliatory strike...
...council's shift of emphasis from the effects of the family's psychological structure to the impact of society on children is a constructive approach, the suggested solutions seem simplistic. All too often, the power of federal mandate seems to be invoked by the council as a magic cureall; wave the wand of legislation, they imply, and problems will vanish. Rather than looking ahead, the council appears to be advocating the same sort of reform that, in general, failed to solve the problems of society in the 1960s. They seem unlikely to do much better...
...meets an outcast aunt, Pilate Dead, who fills the role of tribal storyteller. She tells of his grandfather, who was murdered defending his farm from whites, of her own escape with Milkman's father, their quarrel and separation, and her subequent adventures. She weaves a complex fable of magic, death, ghosts and hidden treasure. Nourished by these tales, Milkman retraces his family's steps. He travels to Pennsylvania where a crone named Circe adds to his family history. In the small Virginia town where his grandfather was born, Milkman hears a group of children sing a song that...
...such. They ride high and graceless, as always, but now their boxy bodies cry out for attention with garish designs and obstreperous Pap art: frontier scenes, Hawaii schlock, seascapes, erotic mush. Even one-the specimen, say, that flashes nude girls in and out of view with Op-artful magic-can pop the eyeballs. When large numbers heave into sight, zooming along the road in a spaced-out phantasmagoria of a caravan, they can set the innocent motorist to gaping and muttering, "What is going on here...