Word: magic
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...meet the grocery bills). At other times, some well-tried statement that had produced yelps of approval before ("It's not Jack's money, it's yours") fell flat. More and more, he focused attention on Cabot Lodge; more and more, he leaned on the magic of the Eisenhower name to show that a Nixon vote is a vote for continuity, experience, and a team...
...reveal the man behind the masks and to place the poet among his peers is an urgent task, but Critic Charles Norman (The Magic-Maker: e. e. cummings) has not done it. His book is a triumph of industry and a signal display of disorganization, a patchwork-letters, reminiscences, vignettes-of incoherent research. Apart from a few candid shots of its subject, the book is significant only because it treats Pound seriously and heralds the work that will treat him definitively. It is a reminder that he cannot be written off and must, more and more, be written about. Pound...
...powerful offense meeting the tightest defense this afternoon at Princeton's Palmer Stadium, as Harvard tries to win four successive football games for the first time since 1946. To win, the Crimson will have to play good football for the third Saturday in a row: the combination of black magic and luck that beat Columbia will not work against the Tigers...
...mystical if you will--and therefore I believe that Stafford should and will win." She turned to a discussion of the "emotionally committed and intellectually uninformed": "I would hate to see a country run only by college graduates; think of what would happen. There is some sort of magic about our system of government which always allows the people to vote for the right...
Officially, Dwight Eisenhower's cross-country tour last week was nonpolitical -but seldom this year has his personal political magic seemed to work so well. Everywhere Ike visited last week-Michigan, Minnesota, Kansas and California-onlookers responded to the President's ready grin and two-armed wave with the kind of heartfelt affection that neither Jack Kennedy nor Dick Nixon (nor any other living U.S. politician) arouses. In San Francisco, a cheering, confetti-hurling noonday crowd of nearly 250,000 gave him the city's warmest welcome since General Douglas MacArthur came home from Japan...