Word: magic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Teevens worked his Jack Mildren magic and ran for most of the yardage in Dartmouth's 74-yard scoring drive for the game's first tally, a one-yard run by Greg Jenkins. Fumble recoveries by Dave Otto and Matt Sabetti, and a diving interception by cornerback Fred Cordova then stalemated the Woodsmen's first half offense...
...strains to evoke the magic of mass marches of 30,000 people with phrases like "very moving" which only call attention to his prosaic writing. Normally, a simple stylistic flaw in a journalistic account would be relatively unimportant, but when writing about Northern Ireland, style is paramount. A chronology of events tied together with trite homilies contributes of the Irish conflict. You might just as well read another newspeper story...
...miraculous is what the reader remembers from the title story in Garcia Marquez's new short story collection, "Innocent Erendira and Other Stories. With the simplicity and innocence of a fairy tale, Garcia Marquez weaves dreams, superstitions and magic into a serious and disturbing story of a cruel matriarch's domination over her lovely and obedient granddaughter. Garcia Marquez's imagination gives the story charm and life which enhances its relevance and meaning...
...theory seems to be that if you can squeeze some coordinated effort out of unruly high-school students, you will, after some Kennedy School training, be able to perform the same magic on unruly bureaucrats...
This radiance is Cheever's unique achievement. It does not stem from easy optimism, as some have charged. For every story in this collection with an up beat ending there is one that puts ice at the back of the neck. Black magic is here, as well as the redemptive kind, and in explicable happiness can be every bit as astonishing as inexplicable misery. Cheever has never tried more or less than to get this sense of mystery down. At the end of one story, he wonders how mere fiction could "hope to celebrate a world that lies spread...