Word: aura
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Berlin's Six Days dates back to 1909. By the early 1930s, the races were often rigged, and they attracted the booted whores and gaudy gangsters who gave Berlin its cynical, sinful aura. Left-wing Playwright Georg Kaiser described the Sportpalast scene in those days: "Inhibition has gone to hell. Cutaways shake. Shirts tear. Buttons pop in all directions. Differences flow away. Nakedness where there used to be disguise: passion. It's worth it-this brings profits...
...purchases, are on installment plans. The American's personal debt is rising at the rate of $1 billion a month, now stands at $70.9 billion. One of every two families owes an installment debt, and 15% of monthly disposable income is earmarked to repay it. But in the aura of prosperity created by current economic news, few consumers worry about debts, partly because they feel protected by such social bulwarks as job security, unemployment insurance, social security and pension plans...
...present state, Golden Boy is a tough, slick and inventive outline for what might become the most exciting musical drama since Gypsy. When it flexes its muscles in music and dance, it has the aura of excitement of a prize fight. But the external glitter does not hide the fact that it has muscle without marrow, a shiny surface but no depth...
...those who limits the wearing of tennis shoes to tennis courts, I thank you for restoring an aura of respectability to our cause...
...critics he is the personification of the Bad Guy, shooting first and answering questions afterward. In traveling the California trail, he faced not only a direct shoot-it-out with Rocky, but passed through close-call ambushes from the pollsters and the press, which raised about him an aura of defeat...