Word: aura
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than any other course, is surrounded by an aura of mystery causing fantasies of primitive rites and intimate confessions. There appears something un-kosher about a course without a real teacher to direct the activities of the class, without a conventional structure in which everyone feels secure. It is this lack of authority which allegedly allows the pent-up hostilities of a frustrated University life to escape--devouring the vulnerable innocents...
...name tied to controversial, progressive state policies -- once that often alienated self-interested blocs that had aided in their original victories. In addition, each has tried to confront the racist issue of "crime in the streets" without much success. Time and partisan bickering have dissipated the aura of freshness, novelty, and change that accompanied their ascent to the highest state of fice...
...series of sound effects. When Caesar's ghost appears to Brutus, Tharon Musser's eerie lighting makes it quite unnecessary to add the off-stage roll on the cymbal. And must we have another crude cymbal roll when Brutus runs on his sword? As a background to the aura of death at Philippi, Susa has also introduced on the harp an ostinato pattern from the Dies irae plainchant, which recalls the identical ostinato near the end of Rachmaninoff's tone-poem Isle of the Dead. At any rate, I suspect that even Sousa would have done better than Susa
...Command of the Cosmos. Philosophical fashion may have passed Hocking by, but there is an unmistakable aura of living truth about many of his ideas. "Democracy," he declared in 1946, "is the most difficult and perilous form of government because it calls for unselfishness on the part of officers and voters alike. To sustain this high morality against the tide requires religion, because it is only religion that makes morality a command of the cosmos...
...Aura of Hysteria. Winner in a covert internal coup that ousted longtime CORE Leader James Farmer last winter, McKissick, 44, has lately steered his civil rights outfit, a leader in the movement in the '60s, away from gradual integration toward aggressive Desegregation Now. Almost all white members and most Negro moderates have either resigned or been nudged out of national policymaking positions. Opposition to the war in Viet Nam has reached a hysteria, and CORE leaders have come close to damning any cooperation with whites-as McKissick did during his meeting with the two Baltimore officials...