Word: aura
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bostonian* ever to achieve his position. More remarkable, he was born and bred in Iowa (a place that Boston dowagers have allegedly been calling "Ohio"). His present position therefore represents quite a leap, for Harvard can still remember the days when the movements of its presidents had an aura all their own. "The President is in Washington," ran one Harvard communique, "seeing Mr. Taft...
...addition to this misguided view of the office itself, many other factors help to create the aura of mystery which surrounds the entire admissions system of the College...
...plays most impressive feature is diminutives Miss Hepburn. She does not mistake her role for that of a normal 16-year-old girl with an abnormal affection for swimming. Rather, she makes Ondine a genuine immortal water sprite. With an exaggerated inflection and manner, she creates an aura of sprightliness about her. Lithely posturing, she distorts realistic movements to the point of super-nature; and they seem right for an ondine. Added to her acting skill is her delightful personal appearance which would make a fine model for all sprites, land, air or sca-borne. When she makes her third...
Richard Savage, the poet, is almost a nonentity. But Savage as the friend of Pope and Samuel Johnson becomes a highly important figure in early eighteenth century English literature. And as the claimant to the title of "bastard son of the late Earl Rivers" he has created an aura of wonder which approaches an unfinished fairy tale...
Attempts of this sort, cloaked in an aura of 125 percent patriotism, have had a remarkable effect in producing legislation which has progressively invaded civil liberties, but which has only modified rather than exterminated the "Communist conspiracy." Curtailments of civil liberties are necessary in wartime, but safe because of their acknowledged temporary nature. But even though peacetime infringements of civil liberties often prove more effective in bothering loyal Americans than in crimping the work of Communists skilled in evasion, they are seldom repealed and remain as a permanent monument to hysteria...