Word: magically
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Guin's narrative savvy. Because she moves briskly without ever seeming to hurry, she makes Hugh's transformation from supermarket clerk to Arthurian knight-errant whisk by as inevitably as a theorem, as acceptably as a rabbit coming out of a hat. The author brandishes her magic instead of concealing it; when Hugh accepts his mission on behalf of the people of Mountain Town, he is given a standard-issue sword and sent out to slay a woefully worn-out dragon...
...factor, however, was an inspired Crimson defense. "We put on a full-court press from the very beginning," explained freshman guard "Magic" Pat Horne. "It got us psyched and gave us plenty of momentum...
...looked like B.U. had found the old magic when forward Paul Fenton scored into an empty...
...talk about is not really going to be a war. This may be the ultimate corruption caused by the television tube, which brings us the daily alarms but can also be snapped off, or the channel can be changed to the comfortable skirmishes of the Bird and Magic Johnson. Another prime-time show with Jimmy, Rosalynn, Chip and Amy and a cast of hundreds...
...both a siege and a mutiny. Disaffected peasants, artisans and Slavs, among others, began massing politically, demanding certainties and absolutes. Taking to the streets, they cared nothing for the hallowed liberal creed: "Wissen macht frei" (Knowledge makes us free). Poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal saw what was happening: "Politics is magic. He who knows how to summon the forces from the deep, him will they follow." All too soon Wissen macht frei was degraded into the cruelly deceptive slogan of Nazi death camps: Arbeit [work] macht frei...