Word: aura
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aren't others, as well, alarmed at his public debauch, at his joyous wallowing in the insensitive, at his brazen certainty that we all will join him, slapping our thighs as we screamingly laugh at his vulgar barbs? And for this poison to be lent an aura of legitimacy simply by its appearance in your pages...
...native Parisian, is teaching a French class at approximately the level of French 20. Taught entirely in French, its reading list is impressive and demands much of he 20 students in the course. Among the titles are Cocteau's La Machine Infernale, Giraudoux's La Guerre de Troie N'aura Pas Lieu and Marivaux's Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard...
...Smell of Money. That kind of nothing-to-it optimism is characteristic of Houston. It strikes newcomers even more vividly than the heat or the building boom. "I like the aura of optimism everybody has here," says a new arrival. "Everybody thinks he can do the job that's put to him, and he goes about it in a happy manner." In other cities, citizens sniff foul air and worry about pollution; in Houston, they savor the pungent odor that wafts from the refineries and chemical plants and cheerfully call it "the smell of money...
...clerical puritanism is not an issue today, and it is indeed very clear that Babe did not regard the question as his chief concern. He and Guzzetti make a simpler use of the medieval setting, for they adopt it to capitalize upon the mystic aura of the medieval church, upon the color of the liturgy's communalism and ritual. Borrowed to produce its very immediate awe, the opera's medievalism is a facile expedient for proclaiming the profundity of the drama; by the last scene the sections in more obvious liturgical setting have become annoyingly irrelevant. The two writers...
...abstractness of the opera's characters and the aura of tension which the music drapes upon them create for the drama a mystique like the one it borrows from medievalism. The substance of that mystique is its steady assertion of the opera's profundity through such abstractness and brooding. But it is a fragile mystique which must borrow that of another age to make itself compelling and undertakes no complete replacement of the outmoded issues of that other time. If such drama seeks to establish itself as a spiritual guide, let it do that by attacking the concrete human issues...