Word: magically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colon stage was set for Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov. For the role of the Infanticide Boris, Chaliapin was making up, robing in his dressing room. Wires and microphones were in readiness to flash the deep magic of Chaliapin's singing throughout the land. Time for the opening curtain neared. Suddenly, without warning, Chaliapin declared that if a single note of his were broadcast under no circumstances would he set foot on stage...
...Jersey suburb. Small (5 ft., 6 in.) but fiery, he persuaded her to leave her husband, come live with him on 14th St. When their money ran out, disillusion began to set in. She left him, went back to her husband. He set to work to exorcise her magic by writing this record of their love-affair, his subsequent adventures as stage-manager, playwright, carpenter bohemian. His intensity, his uncompromising honesty have saved his subject from being either offensive or uninteresting...
...well, maybe your artist is a "good" Baptist. In that case it is excusable, otherwise, probably he will be delighted to tell me about the magic, ephemeral omnipotence...
Whenever a graduating class of college men gathers together for the last time, the average observer who marks the occasional black of cap and gown benath the tranquil June sky inevitably hears, like an echo from some forgotten source, the magic words: "Out into the great world." Each generation that has graduated and grown old has tinged this period with roseate vagueness until all the days of youth become "carefree" and all the trees have become immemorial elms. Memory is usually kind to the college years, and the returning grad of the nineties condenses them into a pleasant bundle...
...said that the University keeps the blue books as records. No adequate explanation of this custom has ever been forwarded. Concentration, distribution, divisionals are magic words which open up a bulging treasure house of scholastic complications. It would be interesting to obtain the "Open Sesame" to the warehouse where the blue books are stored. If the college authorities find this year that all the available space in this mythological spot is filled to repletion it would be a simple matter to send out a short announcement as to where the blue books for each course may be secured...