Word: aura
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rulings, reports The Dartmouth, would be designed to prevent "rounder" drinking by small groups stagnating in an alcoholic aura for its own sake rather than social drinking indulged in connection with other recreation...
Blinking at the unaccustomed educational aura shed by the very walls of Harvard's austere Widener Library, several chic reporters and photographers from the magazine "Glamour" recently set up a station in one of the library corridors with the assignment of drawing a Harvard man into conversation with one of the scintillating models and then snapping the picture...
...bright spots are supplied by Mary Barthelemess, in the part of the maid, and William Mendrek, whose role is that of an iceman. Although overdone, their characterizations ring true and furnish many laughs. Allan Tower, who plays the part of the Big Bad Businessman, has the curious aura of "Ten Nights in a Barroom" about him and the end of the play finds you surprised that he has produced neither a long black mustache, or whip...
Although electric shock may not replace the standard insulin treatment, most psychiatrists think it far superior to metrazol. Its advantages: 1) the convulsions are not usually as violent as those produced by metrazol; 2) since patients lose consciousness immediately, they do not remember the frightening "aura" that precedes a metrazol convulsion; 3) electric treatment is much cheaper than insulin or metrazol-a machine costs less than $300. But electric shock is safe only in the hands of a trained psychiatrist...
...none of them had probably ever read or even heard of the books) were leagued with the devil. Today the German rulers not only read but preach from Nietzschean texts. By careful excision the official Nazi philosophers have adapted Nietzche's works to buttress and lend a respectable philosophical aura to their case. Friedrich Nietzsche who despised his contemporary Germans, who was bitterly anti-anti-semitic, who wrote of himself as "a good European" has become the high priest of the new religion, dynamism. His books are being printed in Germany by the thousands in cheap popular editions; they...