Word: aura
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time, Washington will host the citywide Annual High School Shakespeare Festival this month. "Other kids are scared to death to come down here to the inner city," chuckles Shakespeare Coach Aura Kruger. "They should all be scared to death of the competition." -By Guy D. Garcia. Reported by John E. Yang/Austin and Adam Zagorin/ New York
...situation where, so to speak, "the-buck-stops-at-me." As such the political fast is an awesome burden--one that runs the risk of grievous if not ultimate injury to the fasting individual. It is precisely this heavy burden that lends the act of political fasting its special aura--a profoundly self-denying and self-sacrificial aura that, under certain circumstances, has the capacity to cut across the conflicting boundaries of the fasters and their opponents in unique ways, forging solutions not merely pragmatic but also moral-enhancing...
Connected to this is the special chemistry between political opponents that is created by political fasting, especially the emergence of sympathy between the fasters and opposition owing to the self-denying aura surrounding the former. This is, of course, precisely what the political fasters seek...
...sometimes lazy progression of the game. Basking in the sun. Fenway Franks. The Wall. Falling asleep a little bit faster on the evenings when you know your favorite team has won. The dreamy, remembered presence of immortals like the Ruths. Cobbs and Aarons which create an almost mystic aura in all big league baseball parks. The excitement generated by Pete Rose attempting to break DiMaggio's record of 56 games. Three-and-two bases loaded two outs bottom of the ninth tie score and Reggie's up. The great legacies of the Yankees. Tigers and even the hapless Cubs History...
...novel's plot as in its self-proclaimed intention to be "A Novel of Harvard." Levine tries to capture the essence of Harvard without recognizing that the University presents a different face to everyone who comes in contact with it. Almost no page escapes some mention of the Harvard aura in all its exhilarating manifestations. A typical passage comes early in the book as a starry-eyed Sarah arrives on campus...