Word: aura
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aura of Unreality...
...almost certain not to. There is a real aura of unreality to the exile scene here that is produced by the tension between the expectations of the expatriates and the demands of the United States laws. The radicals focus only on today's war, the hippies on tomorrow's bread, and the law on forever. Except for a few unlitigated areas it is almost certain that flight to Canada to avoid the draft means that you spend the rest of your life there...
...husband, how to avoid sexual entanglements with Daddy, how to make the most of "brief encounters." There is no sexual problem, apparently, that is not conquerable. "Shy girls can be the sexiest," announces the magazine; so can flat-chested girls: "They substitute their lack of inches with an aura of superfemininity. There is something very feline and terrifically exciting about the way a small-bosomed girl moves...
Dylan's gift is a tremendous outburst of pity for the suffering, who are represented always in highly stylized situations. A romantic aura surrounds the actors, heightening the spiritual insight of their actions. Of the love-songs on the album, two are suitably "distanced," and one, "I'll be your Baby Tonight," is sublimely simple...
History surrounds many battles with the aura of legend: Thermopylae, Cannae, Hastings, Verdun, the Bulge. Few of them can match in intensity and fury, or in the significance of their results, the battle of Stalingrad in 1942-43, when the long thrust of Hitler's armies into Russia was halted and reversed. This week the 720,000 people of Volgograd-as Stalingrad was renamed in 1961 during Khrushchev's destalinization campaign-mark the 25th anniversary of the end of the furious battle on the Volga's west bank, in which about 300,000 soldiers and civilians lost...