Word: aura
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most elegant of them all, held court with his beautiful wife Constance. But it was not the distinguished company that made the house a delight to the young Wildes; it was "the smiling giant, always exquisitely dressed, who crawled about the nursery floor with us and lived in an aura of cigar smoke and Eau de Cologne." Unlike many another stiffly Victorian parent living on Tite Street, Wilde was always ready to romp with his boys, mend their toys and enter into their games...
...assortment junk that makes up the rest of the picture. The major items are on wheels, so that they can be shifted about the studio. But Albright does no more shifting than neccessary; he lets things lie until richly coated with dust. He loves them chiefly for their melancholy aura of vanished life. "Things are nothing." he says. "It's what's happened to them that matters...
...care a whit if he (unlike Jimmy Stewart and Gregory Peck) is killed during the course of a picture. Cab drivers, burglars and women admire him. And on top of all this, as an Academy-Award winner (for his part in African Queen), he also lends a film an aura of distinction...
Republicans went to Washington in January 1953, with a mandate to clean out the mess left by a Democratic Party too long in power. In a way, they succeeded: the aura of graft no longer hangs over the U.S. Government. In other ways, they have failed. Some of the Democratic mess remains. And the Republicans have created some of their...
...take in the act of Shiva and Her Snake, described in Saturday's CRIMSON. I feel compelled to point out one inaccuracy: your writer said that the orchestra accompanied Shiva's act with "something Arabian," whereas it was actually Persian music. A petty correction? Yes. But in the present aura of international discord, it ill behooves us to lay ourselves open in any way to charges of anti-Persianism...