Word: aura
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...costume ring instead of a wedding band, can rise to rule the executive suite. Dorothy Shaver, president of Lord & Taylor until her death at 61 in 1959, was the archetype of the breed. At elegant Henri Bendel, Geraldine Stutz became president at 33, has successfully given her store an aura of yé-yé. Last week able, low-keyed Mildred Custin, 58, took over as president of twelve Bonwit Teller stores that stretch from Fifth Avenue headquarters south to Palm Beach and west to Oakbrook...
...crustiest old tightwads in House history, Appropriations often choked off extra funds for almost anything that smacked of liberal legislation. Cannon died last spring, and the chairmanship went to Texas Democrat George Mahon, a loyal Lyndon man-but to Democratic leaders there was still a disturbing aura of conservatism about many of the 50 committee members. As for the 25-man Ways and Means Committee, headed by Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, it had a longtime tilt to the right too-enough so that the committee managed to keep the Administration's medicare bill from ever getting to the House...
...search of money it is a supreme symbol of solvency, the highest accolade Wall Street can bestow. Armed with that much-sought but carefully dispensed rating, a borrower can attract more investors, get by with paying lower interest rates on loans, and generally profit by the blue-chip aura that prime rating bestows in the business world...
...such prestige clubs as White's, Pratt's, Carlton or Brooks. All major financial institutions have their own dining rooms, where financial men daily have guests for relaxed lunches. In their offices, the leaders of London's oldest neighborhood conduct their business in a dark-paneled aura of ceremony; there are grandfather clocks, brass cuspidors and stand-up desks about, and the desk lamps of Hambros' partners were converted from kerosene. The City also has some of the most strictly observed traditions in the kingdom, including a troop of soldiers who arrive each night from Wellington...
...fourth composition ("as yet untitled"), Davidson muted his jarring stop-and-start rhythms and created a gentler, more peaceful aura. He ended his set with a playful, frantic, ironic version of Miles Davis'Milestones. Though he sometimes sounded chaotic, Davidson is no musical anarchist; his compositions were carefully patterned. But now and then his self-imposed experimental conventions seemed to hobble his imagination...