Word: aura
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lamont, hangs on exhibit celebrating the fifth anniversary of The Salient, Harvard's conservative student publication. Arranged under a sign asking "Who says Conservatism isn't Progressive?" is a series of past Salient issues, ranging from the early, newspaper-like layout to the present handsome tabloid format, exuding an aura of mature respectability. But if editorials like Raymond C. Bonker's "Reagan Education Cuts", which unsurprisingly supports the President's pulling of the plug on student aid, and, surprisingly, takes seriously Education Secretary William J. Bennett's insensitive remarks about stereos and vacations, are any indication of what lurks behind...
Critics dismiss Pickens' defense of shareholder interest. Says Harold Hammer, the Gulf executive vice president who directed his company's effort to thwart the Texan: "My only objection to Pickens is the aura he tries to create when he says he is for the small shareholder. That's just a lot of crap." Says Senator Howard Metzenbaum, an Ohio Democrat: "Pickens makes a crusade out of what he's doing because he can make a lot of money." Many critics have labeled Pickens a greenmailer, a charge he hotly denies. The term describes a type of corporate blackmail in which...
...still hasn't garnered mainstream approval: its combative and arrogant aura puts off those who have opted out of the drag race of love. There individuals, the Alan Aldes and Meryl Streeps of the world, may well want to de-sexualize sex, to remove it from a primarily monogamous market to a system of universal human intercourse. The nostalgic memories of childhood, without all those sexual anxieties, form an attractive model, but by and large these memories are incomplete. Childhood sexual neuroses not only exist but in one sense are even more insidious than those of adult, because children...
...women even use their long hair to heighten the effort of throwing, their torsos over and to straightening up. Against these curves and contractions, Donna Wood appears for a solo. She is one of Ailey's most famous dancxers; her towering height and incredible talent create a magical aura around her. She is able and to turn leap while keeping her body as straight as a spear. Her arms seem to out the air with their sharpness...
...wrote to a friend in Britain, "and as the time comes close to that date, I begin to feel utterly bad and angry at the world." She spoke of conspiracies against her, much as Stalin had done in his time. "Something is around me, a 'bad aura,' fears, gossip, talk, two governments plotting to get rid of me simultaneously," she complained in the same letter. She stunned an elderly Russian woman, an emigre, by writing to her, "You are a KGB agent. You are a double and triple agent." As Svetlana well knew, it was the kind of denunciation that...