Word: aura
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Intellectual Aura...
Wilson is not alone in a feeling that Harvard should and will take the lead in any new movement having a certain intellectual character. "The West Coast experiments give modern jazz an intellectual aura, and this should rivet the Ivy Leaguer to the idea of jazz as an art form. What we need first is a different attitude in the Music Department. Then we need a club with a definite idea--a fixed purpose--and some means to endure when the original members leave. Once this attracts the Harvard market things will really move fast...
...comedians and jugglers entertaining the seaside resort trade-Britain's trade-union movement showed its age last week. World War II and service in Britain's postwar Labor government have given the brash, rash revolutionaries of yesteryear a more mature sense of responsibility, a new aura of middle-class respectability. Less anxious to "nationalize everything," more alert to the Communist menace in their ranks, the leaders of the Trades Union Congress (8,377,325 members in 185 affiliated unions) have moved steadily to the right in recent years. But despite this right turn, some pockets of militant Communism...
Nelson was born in 1758, at a time when Dr. Samuel Johnson could see little difference between life at sea and life in prison, except that at sea there was the added hazard of drowning. Yet Nelson, a parson's sickly son, lived to cast an aura of gaiety and gallantry over the squalid business of being a ship's officer. He was a prudent sailor, a superb professional in the chancy matters of wind, tide, hemp, oak, canvas and gunpowder, at a time when a man-o'-war was a floating firecracker rather than a seagoing...
...bought, not because buyers like fresh air and sunshine, but because somehow they regard the convertible as the mistress they dare not have. With equal solemnity, Sociologist David Riesman (in an article co-authored by Auto Expert Eric Larabee) proclaims that "many can safely sample the jet-age aura by having a design 'based' on the Sabre jet-as the 1956 Plymouth. So, too, can the consumer be in tune with the future through his dashboard, which looks like an intergalactic control panel...