Word: magic
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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HANOVER, N. H.--Chief Hal Wonson of the Indian nine humbled the Stahlmen with his magic arm, allowing only two hits, singles by Freddy Keyes and Gil Whittemore, while chutting out the Crimson squad 6 to 0 in a game played at Hanover yesterday afternoon...
Through long years of experience, Harvard has learned the value of its reputation for indifference. What would scores of toastmasters, coaches, and Harvard Presidents have said without the magic words: "Harvard may be indifferent about some things, but not about this!"? Without Harvard indifference to break down, what would the Associated Harvard Clubs meeting in New York this weekend do? All that energy, all that elbow-bending, all that glad-handing, would go for nothing. Without indifference, the meeting would be just like any other school-boy get-together...
Last week even political experts woke up to a fact as plain as the nose on Uncle Sam's face: that the U. S. was going Republican as fast as it decently could. Even more joyful to eye-rubbing GOPsters was another dawning fact: that the magic name of Franklin Roosevelt had lost a lot of its abracadoomph...
...Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Albert Basserman; TIME...
...pales beside the Mass. Mozart and Beethoven both wrote masses of unquestionable beauty, but since they were more in the secular tradition than Bach they did not succeed so well in pouring into these works their own greatness of spirit. The Easter music from "Parsifal" likewise, for all its magic, seems mere tour de force, coloristic effect, next to the Mass; Wagner was concerned chiefly with recreating the atmosphere of legend and not with creating a setting for Christian devotion. The Bach B minor Mass is, in fact, a unique work. Consequently, its performance next Sunday by the Harvard Glee...