Word: aura
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Daley got 55.6% of the votes, beating Republican Benjamin Adamowski by 137,531. Against a formidable opponent that would have been a creditable showing, but not against Adamowski. An exDemocrat who had been a notably unsuccessful state's attorney, Adamowski had a sure-loser aura about him. even established his campaign headquarters in the Casualty Building. He carried on a drab campaign, failed to win the support of any of Chicago's newspapers (all of them Republican, more or less), stirred no enthusiasm in many G.O.P. ward leaders. Then why didn't Daley wallop Adamowski good? Apparently...
Life in secluded Cambridge may once again assume that aura of knowledge-ability and savoir-faire of last December. The New York papers are back, filled with the tasty newsbits that add spice to life...
Almost inevitably, girls eventually become quite dissatisfied with blind dates-they are generally enveloped by an aura of phoniness, superficiality, and a unnatural intensity. "I doubt that there is such a thing as a relaxed blind date," a girl observed. The unpopularity of blind dates and the general contempt for mixtures make many girls who are socially inclined feel that having a steady boyfriend is almost imperative at Mount Holyoke. One girl took a rather cynical view of the function of boys in Mount Holyoke's world: "Boys are primarily a means for getting out of Holyoke for a weekend...
...always in part a mystery. Once Goodman noticed two people sunning themselves on the deck of a ship; these became two eerie figures in ghostly robes lying in a landscape that appears to have no beginning and no end, and what is commonplace thus takes on the aura of being cosmic...
...roams the boundaries of the public domain. Since Gilbert and Sullivan are there now, Sherman has a go at When I Was a Lad from H.M.S. Pinafore: "So I thank old Yale and I thank the Lord And I also thank my father who is chairman of the board." Aura Lee emerges this way: "Every time you take vaccine, take it orally . . ." But the best of all is a number in which Queen Victoria sings the Bill Bailey melody, sniffling, "Disraeli, won't you please come home...