Word: aura
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere between Raymond Chandler's novel and the screen of the neighborhood theatre all mention of pornographia and nymphomania--the specific subjects of the original--has been trapped in the meshes of the Production Code. What is left of the Chandler touch is the dialogue and the general aura of pointless brutality which has distinguished other films of the Cain-Chandler genre...
This curious mixture of old and now is curiously resolved in Jerusalem. An ancient city, it has aura of repose and settled dignity. Built entirely of a time defying, beige and yellow tinted stone, the newest buildings seem as old as the oldest, and the most ancient houses, no older than the now. And when the city is seen from the heights of Mount Scopus, sleeping under the brilliant summer sun, the vision is breathtaking...
...Palace has given the union an office for meetings. There the footmen, butlers, housemaids, valets, cooks, pages and workers at the Royal Mews can take their gripes, if they have any. However, an aura of bliss seems to have settled over the Royal menage. Wrote J. R. Clynes, former Home Secretary, in the Municipal and General Workers Journal: "In an enlightened future the head of a royal household staff may not only have the honor attaching to his place of employment but the honor of acting as shop steward for his mates...
Ambitious Weekly. The other peace-seeking periodical has given the Manhattan eyrie of the New Republic the expectant aura of a hospital delivery room-even though the birth is still months away. But the prospect is more exciting to Editor Michael Whitney Straight (rhymes with bait) than the current affairs of the New Republic, his family's journal of opinion...
Sizing up a football team is dangerous business. It is extra dangerous when the team has been wallowing in an aura of consistent over-rating and under-rating, when is performances from day to day have varied with the tides, when members have shuttled back and forth from the injured list with alarming rapidity. Harvard's eleven is, of course, the case in point. That the material is there somewhere has hardly been denied by anyone, but just exactly where it is and in what positions it is going to play is just clearing up about...