Word: aura
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...Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Overture to “The Wasps,” a popular selection from a suite written for a 1909 production of Aristophanes’s satire, “The Wasps.” The overture began with taut strings that emanated an aura of stress. Flutes followed, shrieking. This tense introduction represented the “wasps” referenced in the title—actually overzealous Athenian jurors in Aristophanes’s text.Although the orchestra, sounding out of tune, had gotten off to a rocky start, it finished the piece very...
...that Hillary Clinton is keeping Gore from running. It's true that Gore's late-entry presidential calculus always required Hillary to stumble, and it's true she has not done so - to the contrary, she has extended her lead nationally, edged ahead in Iowa, and taken on an aura of invincibility that has brought the Democratic power structure into line behind her. One hundred and thirty-six thousand people may have signed Draft Gore petitions, but most Dems seem pleased with their current candidates - and especially with the front-runner. To borrow a phrase from Barack Obama, the Clinton...
...keeping with the legacy of Indian independence, the aura of nationalism that surrounded Mohun Bagan soon faded with the conflicts of partition. The well-heeled Calcuttans who ran Mohun Bagan often discriminated against athletes from the eastern parts of Bengal, whose accents, culinary tastes and even modes of dress differed. A contingent of eastern officials and players broke away from Mohun Bagan and set up the East Bengal club in 1920. The rivalry was ramped up after 1947, when the departing British divided Bengal along religious lines, its east becoming East Pakistan. Millions of Hindu refugees fled west to Kolkata...
...calling out to the characters. The temporal structure of the film adds to the narrative of the story, unveiling key details when they’re needed. Flashbacks, combined with the occasional voice-over by Jena Malone, who plays McCandless’ younger sister, give the film a eulogistic aura. When you leave your seat, you might be a little more skeptical about the life you live. You might even take someone up on an adventure. If nothing else, when the Boston winter arrives, you finally might see ice and snow as an avenue for ruddy character building, rather than...
...Sports Core. It’s time to toughen up and shake off the hangover from the Cornell hockey game and get on a bus to New Haven. The state of Harvard football has declined since the Crimson won its only Rose Bowl in 1920, but the aura surrounding The Game has not. It’s the longest-running rivalry in American sports, a rare opportunity to see Harvard mentioned on ESPN, and one of the few times everyone at this school agrees on something—Yale sucks.WOMEN’S HOCKEY vs. ST. LAWRENCE (Sat. 11/24...