Word: aura
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aura of High Places. The two approaches to the nomination were rooted in the history of U.S. politics: Johnson's in the theory of the Founding Fathers that a leader is chosen by his peers (the Electoral College picked the President; state legislatures chose U.S. Senators); Kennedy's in the populist theory of direct primaries (now augmented by the help of direct and almost instantaneous communications). The two approaches were also rooted in the radically different characters and careers of Kennedy and Johnson. They are sometimes thought to represent the liberal and conservative wings of their party, but allowing...
Welfare State: As the son of a multi millionaire and a millionaire himself, Harvard-accented, dark-suited Jack Kennedy carries about an aura that makes him acceptable to many right-leaning Democrats and independents who instinctively reject any unmistakable liberal such as Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey. But Kennedy's stands and voting records on most domestic issues are not widely different from Humphrey's. Kennedy's closest advisers on domestic policies, including Harvard Professors Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and John Kenneth (The Affluent Society) Galbraith, tend to be liberals of the Americans for Democratic Action camp...
...rest, Donahue sometimes indulged in cornball stunts. He started a Sunday series on unsolved crimes, offered $5,000 rewards to readers coming up with solutions. When Donahue asked Mrs. Hobby's approval of the crime series, she replied: "It has an aura of the common about it. Cloak it with a mantle of decency." Recalls Donahue: "I started each piece out with a quotation about public service-J. Edgar Hoover or something-then shot the works...
...covers the years between France's liberation (1944) and his resignation as France's first postwar Chief of State (1946). In a sense it is the most revealing book of the three. A hero at home and on the job is bound to lose some of the aura that surrounded him as a disembodied voice from abroad, and his difficult months as a peacetime leader give an excellent idea of what he meant by governing, by leadership, by duty...
...folklore of the U.S. food industry, mouths water and registers jingle when any product-from maple syrup to dog biscuits-is endowed with the nostalgic aura of the "old-fashioned." No one has better succeeded in transforming that folklore into fact than trim, green-eyed Margaret Rudkin, 62, founder and president of Pepperidge Farm Inc., the largest U.S. independent baking company. Maggie Rudkin-as she is styled in her company's homey TV ads-brought old-fashioned bread back to U.S. dinner tables in mass-production fashion, thereby baked her way into a $40-million-a-year business, which...