Word: aura
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impossible to come up with any accurate comparison of the two teams personnel. In the case of the Packers, publicity and familiarity have spawned a mistaken aura of superiority. In the anonymous world of the offensive line. Forrest Gregg Jerry Kramer, and Bob Skoronski stand out over Oakland's Harry Schuh and Bob Svihus largely because of the tremendous exposure they have received in their decade in the pros, most of it with a championship team. But that doesn't mean a rising star can't be as bright as a falling one, or that the youngsters haven't been...
...wife of Composer Richard Rodgers, a former professional interior decorator, gives a step-by-step account of how she built her dream house. The story has an irresistible fairy-tale aura, and her menus are as excellent as those in her previous book (My Favorite Things), although many a gourmet will be sorely wounded by her continuing and total aversion to garlic...
...earlier investigations of the series, the tone was sometimes indignant. This time, appropriately, there was an aura of bemusement too, an awareness that vanity often takes precedence over common sense. Asked Narrator Dick McCutchen: "If you feel that a $10 jar of something or other has made you look dazzling, and we tell you that it couldn't have possibly made any difference, except in your mind, does it mean that you have wasted your money...
...result, Harvard liberals take up afternoon causes--like PBH projects or running art sales for the benefit of Mississippi Negroes. A few work for liberal candidates like John F. Kennedy or Kevin White. But primarily, there is a breakfast-table-argument aura to it all. No one bleeds...
...name, prevented from attending Oxford because his father was anathema there. Eventually he emerged as a modest writer whose own memories of his father were of "the kindest and gentlest of men, a smiling giant, who crawled about the nursery floor with us and lived in an aura of cigarette smoke and eau de cologne...