Word: aura
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the overall aura of a rally-round-the-flag spirit, there remained some nagging doubts about the timing of the blockade decision, coming as it did just two weeks before the elections. The Republican Congressional Campaign Committee angrily charged that the timing was political and aimed at preventing a Democratic debacle...
...that it will be invited to supply talent and material and to bid on jobs. In addition, there are ''institutional" ads-such as the Container Corp. of America's series on "Great Ideas of Western Man''-by which companies aim to create an aura of progressiveness in order to recruit customers, stockholders or employees...
...current program gives us Miss Hayes and Mr. Evans (both a bit insecure in their lines on opening night) trying vainly to recapture the aura of their 1940 production of Twelfth Night together. It suggests nothing so much as the U.S.S. Caine's Captain Queeg trying to relive his triumphal solution of the bygone cheese theft when a quart of fresh Strawberries was unaccounted for. "Shakespeare Revisited" is Shakespeare recidivous...
...almost laughable. Yet despite the natural problems of pitch, the chorus and soloists did master the music, no mean feat. A performance keyed to the drama of the story could enliven the work, but its little-varied tension is really a pretentious archaism relying more on a cliched aura of biblical language than on the content of the words themselves...
Natex Chairman Lawrence Huntington Taylor, 48, a veteran Wall Street broker, believes that many of the nation's more than 50,000 unlisted stock companies will flock to the Natex in hopes of getting the publicity, ease of trading, and aura of stability afforded by listing. But on opening day the new exchange listed only eight issues, most of which carried in their corporate titles such alluring words as "automated," "missiles" or "electronics"-and six of which are selling below their original offering prices...