Word: aura
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Humphrey, of course, faces obvious handicaps. He is starting late. He has neither the aura of freshness nor the vocal young following that energize the Kennedy and McCarthy campaigns. He must get good marks in opinion polls. He must defend an incumbent Administration's record with little of the leverage and perquisites that an incumbent President automatically enjoys. And, while capitalizing on the Administration's accomplishments, he must overcome the me-too image if he is to attract some of the disenchanted. Further, Humphrey will be a prisoner of events during the coming months. There are primary elections...
What gives his music its special character is its aura of the fantastic and diabolical. Lees himself traces his fond ness for surprise and mysterious change of mood to the Dadaists and to surrealists like Duchamp, Max Ernst and Man Ray, whose works he got to know during his days in Paris from 1954 to 1962. "Surrealism is representational but in a disturbing way," says Lees. "It reminds you of a dream. This is the element I have tried to transform into music...
Junction is stained with the sooty slum aura that marks much of Poor Cow (TIME, Feb. 9), and with good reason. Both films were adapted from books by Novelist Nell Dunn. Though the story too often has the quality of pulpy sociology, Junction is saved from indistinction by Director Peter Collinson's extraordinary spirit of place, and by Suzy Kendall's chameleonlike ability to look and sound like ten different women in the course of a single film...
...Encircling the U.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh and massed around Saigon and other cities, enemy forces seemed to be missing opportunities to strike a second blow while the country was still struggling to recover from the initial attacks. As the days slipped by, the waiting created an unreal aura of suspense. Then last week the Communists hit again with a synchronized series of widespread mortar and rocket attacks. But, without strong supporting infantry assaults by week's end, their latest move did not seem to amount to the fullscale second wave...
...political aura of American universities has thickened since 1954, when the Constitution was written. Predictably, the war in Vietnam intruded into the modest workings of the Council. The referendum and poll being held this week is only the visible portion of an encroaching iceberg...