Word: aura
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also profiting. "The level of conversations here has improved on all levels," says President Edwards, due in part to Stanley's fresh influx of ideas. Although Stanley admits he misses being "in the center of everything," he hasn't tried to make Carleton into something it's not. "The aura of the Yard is upon him," Edwards concludes, "but he wears it lightly...
...attention it gets from the candidates and the media, the New Hampshire primary, numerically speaking, is a drop in the bucket. Granted that a strong showing in the Granite State reaps huge rewards for a campaign: publicity, money, volunteers, and the aura of success. But in terms of delegates to the national conventions, New Hampshire is not worth much. At stake are 19 Democratic delegates--one-half of 1 per cent of the total--and 22 Republican delegates--slightly more than 1 per cent of the total. By comparison, Minnesota, which holds caucuses on the same...
When people expect the worst from a president, an adequate or mediocre response takes on an aura of grandeur; Carter seduced the national press ("lights at the White House burned into the night") as effectively as he did the voters of Iowa. Carter appreciates how wide his support has become, but not how thin it remains. By going for the jugular, he hoped to capitalize and exploit the popularity he has gained by not going off the deep end over the past four months, which in these times passes for a substantial accomplishment. Yet when so minor an achievement...
Fired up, this team could go places. They're young, like everybody else around here, and though they don't have that aura of invincibility of years past, they may have the one thing that can beat B.C.: firepower...
HARVARD MAKES a promise, casts a spell, and breaks them both. It promises liberal education and conjures an aura of power. The power is conferred upon you by the diploma, which fools the outside world into believing that you are well-educated. When you are inside, of course, you know better. You know you can avoid confronting either a professor or a course. You know that Harvard teaches most people not liberal arts but how to get what you want, or go under. The promise of humanism remains unfulfilled for all but a lucky few, who latch onto the people...