Word: magic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...governments of the U.S.A., Great Britain and France still cannot give up the idea that the Big Four allegedly possess some magic power to unite Germany . . . But why should this question be decided by anyone but the Germans themselves...
Since then, Campbell has held the record unchallenged and upped it every year. But the magic 300-m.p.h. mark on water has become to Campbell what Mount...
...students with suggestions that they develop spiral buildings, semicircular projection screens, "floating cities" wrapped in cocoonlike weather protectors, and "horizontal skyscrapers" suspended like bridges. In the 1940s he built great open sculptures and clusters of pictures "to relax inside" and designed striking stage sets for No exit and The Magic Flute...
...relations between different aspects of medieval culture. The positing of a time-spirit raises questions akin to those of the nominalist-realist controversy which occupied the minds of the medieval man that these historians write about: does the Zeitgeist have any universal validity or is it merely a magic name for uniting different manifestations of a culture? Bourne does an astute job of showing how the historians arrive at a causal Zeitgeist indirectly and sometimes counter to their own intentions. But besides a hint that invoking a time-spirit becomes almost a necessity for the cultural historian, Bourne neglects...
...Laboratory of Applied Physiology, a founder of the Yale Center of Alcohol Studies, who passed dispassionate judgment on both the teetotaler and the lush (Alcohol is "the safest of all sedatives"; "The drunk should be made something not funny"), popularized medical history with Devils, Drugs and Doctors and Mystery, Magic and Medicine; of congestive heart failure; in Fort Lauderdale...