Word: aura
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frank Piegaro, sporting pipe, dark-rimmed glasses and an aura of klutziness, and the demurely attractive Marcia Mitzman, are well cast as the traditional innocent victims--the Denton, Ohio couplet of Brad "Asshole" Majors and Janet Weiss (as in "Vice...
...meet had an aura of deja vu for the harriers, who lost last week to UNH (their only other loss of the season) in precisely the same manner, with Beckford and Linsley grabbing first and second (the two are undefeated this season) but then conceding the next four or five slots to the opposition...
...Secaucus Seven seem purged of that terrible, adolescent rage that burst through the boundaries of politics and into all facets of '60s culture--many of them are just marking time. But how grandly they have aged! Gone are the sharp edges, the arrogance, the aura of indestructibility, replaced by a quiet maturity, a fundamental honesty, and, in most of them, a sad but touching self-awareness...
Many thoughtful observers believe that Viet Nam shattered that aura and dispersed the people. Scholars turned away from the study of diplomatic and military affairs, says Henry Kissinger. Experts stayed out of Government. The past was condemned and obliterated, history and its lessons interrupted. The theory grew, according to New York's Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, that our problems in the world stemmed from being too powerful...
...that populist touch has now all but vanished. Today he is aloof, unabashedly aristocratic, and fashions himself a closet literary critic with a passion for Guy de Maupassant. He has learned to manipulate the constitution and the press to serve his interests, and today projects an almost frigid aura of statesmanship. Giscard now practices with atavistic veracity de Gaulle's most imperial trait--standing at a calculated distance form his people. And judging from his re-election prospects, the French approve...