Word: aura
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston pastors in St. John's auditorium on the meaning of Vatican II, 125 seminarians organized a silent protest march outside. One carried a sign that read "Freedom in the Seminary Now." Earlier, seminarians also circulated a statement criticizing Cushing as an "intransigent cardinal-archbishop" living in "an aura of Byzantine splendor." Cushing angrily responded by warning the students that they could not dictate any changes in the rules, and from among the picketers chose the eight men he expelled - six of them only a year away from ordination after seven years of study...
Unsynchronized Passion. Hemingway himself was, of course, his own greatest creation-the archetype of all Hemingway heroes. A big, burly man with heavy shoulders and hugely muscled arms, he was 48 and still radiating an aura of fun and well-being when he and Hotchner first met in Cuba in 1948. For the next 13 years they were inseparable friends. Although he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954, they were not Hemingway's most creative years. Yet he was busy and active...
...love with painting in light: "Neon most accurately expresses modern life; it is standard all over the world. With it, you can project the idea of moving color, that is, a sensitive movement without agitation." He tries to avoid using pure light simply to outline objects, letting a blue aura suffuse a red one, as in his Another Moment of Happiness, to produce a purply halo...
Something of the aura of the tradition-encrusted House never fails to flood in around even the most jaded Lowellian as he walks into the Courtyard--possibly the most beautiful spot in the entire University...
...greeted with a recent erasure in Webster's New Collegiate. Exactly what he'll find where urban community development once stood is hard to say -- perhaps something like "better burg breeding" or "coached community commotion" or any one of a thousand possible locutions which would shed an aura of respectability on an undertaking whose very nature suggests a lurking, sleight-of-hand presence...