Word: aura
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART IS A DIRTY OLD MAN (Epic). Mozart has acquired a pristine aura of impeccable glory, but, like Abraham Lincoln, he loved dirty jokes and puns-which he enjoyed setting to utterly fastidious music for the eternal amusement of the world's musicologists. Now ordinary fans can snicker along, for this album provides everything from Leek mich am Arsch! Goethe . . . (Kiss My Behind! Goethe . . . ) to Liebes Mandel, wo ist's Bandel? (Lovey-Dovey, Where's My Glovey?). The English translations may be rough, but then so are the sentiments; Norman Luboff directs a crew...
Pyramids & Polemics. Das Kapital's sheer size-three volumes and more than 2,000 pages-is almost enough to endow it with a religious aura. The work, says British Historian Isaiah Berlin, "has been blindly worshiped and blindly hated by millions who have not read a line of it, or have read without understanding its obscure and tortuous prose." Since 1917, more than 6,000,000 copies of it have been printed in the Soviet Union. Yet the Albanians, who have been Communists for two dec ades, managed to do without it until last year, when they published...
That slim decline in strength has not noticeably disheartened the Viet Cong. To Americans, who are often troubled by a feeling that "our Vietnamese don't fight as hard as their Vietnamese," the Viet Cong's motivations and methods have long had an aura of mystery and mystique. How and why do they hang on so persistently under constant harassment from bombs and artillery, while their manpower dwindles and their food supplies shrink? A large part of the answer was supplied when the U.S. captured a massive cache of fresh insights into the activities of an exasperatingly stubbon enemy. Last...
...midst of what is supposed to be an El Paso summer. He and Van Cleef scarcely look at their victims before knocking them oft, never waste a shot, and never utter a sentence when a grunt will do-which gives the picture, despite moments of serious relief, the feverish aura of madcap comedy. For those who like an elemental western with galvanic gestures, a twanging score full of jew's-harps and choral chanting, and a lofty disdain for sense and authenticity, the film will be ideal...
...around the country have long been aware of these problems. As early as 1961, the staff of New York City's Board of Education (a policy-making institution outside the formal school system) prepared a comprehensive plan for decentralizing New York's schools. But public support was lacking. The aura of the professional still gripped those with a voice in politics. And few among those who advocated change seem to have realized how serious the situation was. Then the force for change came where it had to come--from the ghettoes...