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...strength of that image can not be overestimated. For not only has it vitiated any critical focus on Gerald Ford's record, but it has also surrounded the man with an aura of virtue that is in fact denied by Ford's record in office and his performance in the presidential campaign. The American people have been conned before, and apparently they are being conned again. Before election day arrives, a look at old newspapers might 'be worthwhile, for too many things seem to have been forgotten...
...American living outside the U.S. I have this to say about my country's preoccupation with a presidential "personality" contest instead of issues: phooey. Has a man's "aura" ever run the country...
...play's ritual aura is established as the actors enter, rhythmically pounding their bodies and abruptly striking poses that evoke the personae to come. There are no fixed roles in this work; the cast is an anonymous, drably clad, chameleon-like group. They are reincarnated in successive scenes, serving as specific characters, archetypal men and women, corpses, beasts, chorus or bystanders. Rudimentary identities and emotions are conveyed through pantomime and the ebb and flow of varicolored light...
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Delta Alpha, Sigma Nu, Kappa Kappa Epsilon...they all seemed the same by midnight when the frats overflowed into the street, making one big party, an orgy of clashing bands rowdy frat guys and tipsy visitors. Somehow that Ivy League aura had vanished. This was a mammoth beer blast to rival any Big Ten post-game show. And that was after a losing effort on the gridiron...
...blazers and white loafers. He has run into some flak from Common Cause for his acceptance of $10,000 in contributions from the A.M.A., twice the amount allowed one contributor by law. He claims it was legal. However, with a $500,000 budget, thousands of precinct workers, and an aura of the Eagle Scout (he actually was one), Lugar looks like a winner over Hartke...