Word: aura
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Public betting pools and slot machines are common throughout Germany as well, but the real romance is still in the wheel of fortune. Explains Carl-Alexander von der Groeben, promotion manager at Bad Neuenahr: "Somehow we are still surrounded by the ancient aura of being socially exclusive, and just a little bit illicit. You can see it in the face of the grocer's wife, who comes in and looks around to see if anyone there knows...
...Name tags are a big help," one mem- ber of '40 said at a Winthrop House luncheon. "I've come back, of course, to see all my old friends." One alumnus had come to the Reunion from Hawaii, another from East Africa--both attracted by the "aura of the 25th." Others said they wanted to express their affection for their old friend and classmate, John F. Kennedy, who lived in Winthrop House...
...with, is not likely to be the man on her arm as the limousine arrives at the theater, or wherever. The fellow in the flashbulbs has to be an old knight in shining armor, such as Adlai Stevenson or Averell Harriman -someone of national stature, mature dignity and no aura of romance...
This may have been a matter of interpretation. For even as Touchstone dispenses justice at the close of the play--like a citizen equivalent of the Prince or Duke at the end of so many of Shakespeare's--the golden aura he tries to cast over the proceedings is belied by Quicksilver's hypocritical reformation. Still, without a winning Touchstone, the play wobbles...
...auto-racing drivers to race them, with the stipulation that they would not be allowed to practice or even get in the boats before the race. On the great day six of the boats sank in collisions, but the publicity contributed handsomely to the new resort's perennial aura of spectator glamour...