Word: aura
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Lapham took over, the magazine continued in a holding pattern until January, when Lapham's "Letter to the Reader" hinted at the changes to come. He addressed the "aura of intellectual defeat" surrounding national magazines dealing in ideas, and advanced the profound observation that "fewer and fewer people find the time to even glance at the papers...
...himself acts in the book as one of its characters Donoso even includes a chapter in which he, the author, supposedly met one of his characters. The character reads Donoso's manuscript and attacks it for its distortions Garcia Marquez writes more traditionally, lending his portrayals of characters an aura of truth by not questioning their existence within the frame work of his novels. At the end of One Hundred Years of Solitude a character has discovered the manuscript and is translating it. But Marquez' character is mesmerized rather than critical: his reading of the manuscript confirms Garcia Marquez' authority...
...opening scenes in which the actors recite scriptural invocations to the pre-curtain yoga preparation, the play succeeds in establishing a profoundly sacred tone. And though many of the special effects d'Estree uses initially seem overdone and tritely symbolic, in the end they actually work to enhance the aura of authenticity the actors attempt to create...
...Harvard managed to elude that ominous and foreboding aura of defeat, and, when the final buzzer sounded, it proceeded to indulge in its most riotous victory celebration in years...
...questionable. He pitches himself as a moderate appealing to "the constituency of the whole." Yet primaries tend to be dominated by ideological activists, not middle-of-the-roaders. Glenn and company also staked too much on the magic of his astronautical fame. "They really believed they could transfer the aura of celebrity into a political gain," says a politician from Glenn's home state. "It is now clear they can't do that." Americans are indeed eager to see Hero Glenn, but once the crowds gather, they are seldom won over. At the Iowa State Fairgrounds, he wanted...