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...some ways, Superman's relentless virtue goes even beyond virtue. In his extraterrestrial origins and the shining purity of his altruism, some commentators have detected a divine aura. "Superman, I've always thought, is an angel," says Andrew Greeley, gadfly Roman Catholic priest and best-selling novelist. "Probably the angel stories found in all of the world's religions are traces of the work in our world of Superman and his relatives. Who is to say I'm wrong?" Proponents of the angel theory believe it is no accident that when Superman is in full flight, his flared collar...
...unfulfilled hopes of the revolution, the Aquino aura remains intact. Mira concedes that nothing has changed since Aquino came to power. "But Cory is better than Imelda," she says, referring to Marcos' once powerful wife. Last year, Mira recalls, Aquino came to within a five-minute jeepney ride of Happy Land to inspect garbage collection. "Imelda never visited this place...
Gardner argued that the tenant, Cox, should not have received "threatening letters" from a city official. Although Walsh said his letter "had nothing to do with the city of Cambridge," Gardner said his public aura made it a case of "official harrassment...
...clear and patient observer whose literary surfaces are sometimes broken by a political ripple (the conservation policies of the Reagan Administration, for example, are found wanting, mainly because there are so few of them). Lopez offers no specific program for balancing the ecosystem. Rather, he tries to create an aura of reverence for nature that sometimes has the look of born-again paganism. With musical accompaniment by Paul Winter, a trail companion in one of the book's selections, Lopez could become a guru of the New Age movement...
...gauzy morning-in-America aura of the Reagan regime has been characterized by a willful failure to face fiscal realities. The resulting budget and trade deficits constrict the ideas and visions that candidates might see fit to offer. Though the nation knows in its gut that it is time to move beyond the feel-good pap that Reagan offered, it is not ready to bestow popularity on those who call for realistic prescriptions. Last week Bruce Babbitt discovered that sad truth. So did Robert Dole, whose sin was taking the sensible position that he would not rule...