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Axelrod, Puopolo, Silverman and Wright have all played together in the past, but they say the intense spirit of The Rhythm Method has transported their latest band into a whole new league. "Our aspiration is to eventually have that dream contract," Axelrod says. He believes that this self indulgent aura of professionalism is key to eventual mass-success...
Banks' commitment to and reverence for the riddles and beauty in the Noh tradition is admirable; his work is often thought-provoking. But the staging at the Agassiz simply does not have the spiritual aura or nuanced acting to carry an audience through an hour of abstracted performance. Noh business is not show business, and doesn't try to be, but Komachi is too slow and awkward to be very rewarding...
...Reagan's popular aura rubbed off on other Republicans. When presented with the statement, "Given President Reagan's success in governing the country, we should stick with a Republican as our next President," 52% disagreed and 30% agreed. The response was pretty much the same to the declaration, "After eight years of having a Republican as President, it would be better if our next President were a Democrat." Fifty percent disagreed and 33% agreed...
...inexplicable aura pervades Harvard, an aura felt by the students currently enrolled in the College and by the alumni who return to the stomping ground of their youth. "Right around finals time there's a really neat feeling," Salinas says. "You go to Widener Library and think, 'Wow, this is Harvard...
Lieut. Elmo Zumwalt III, 40, is the admiral's son. His childhood does not seem to have been unduly affected by the aura of authority. Elmo had other problems: a heart defect that had to be surgically corrected; a mild but frightening case of polio, from which he fully recovered; and a hard time getting good grades at school. Yet he persevered, graduating from the University of North Carolina in 1968 and going into the family business as a swift-boat commander in Viet...