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...choice in other areas of Harvard drama. His rejection by Radcliffe Grant-In-Aid seemed to him to have been based on the belief that he was not "a Grant-In-Aid type of person," that his was not a Grant-In-Aid type of show. Bemused by this aura of "Grant-In-Aidness" which the board seemed to be looking for, LaZebnik says, "I somehow didn't have...
...your analyst about the ironies of the psychoanalytic movement. The aura of authority in sheepskin diplomas and overstuffed leather couches came too painfully for him to let on that analysts go mad, or that Freud sometimes showed his slip. He'd rather pretend that the great controversies and little embarrassments never happened, or are so far in the past that, well, who remembers them? Psychoanalysts may have been torn by cult politics then, but that's history, he would say, now it's a science...
...first really cold, clear day in late November, and secretaries at the Business School are coming in to Kresge Hall for their lunch hour. Kresge, you understand, is one of the B-School's imposing, immaculate buildings--quiet, a mass of glass and brick, exuding the aura of Olympian top-management executive retreats. Over on one side of the ground floor is a cafeteria where some of the secretaries eat plastic-wrapped sandwiches and drink half-pint cartons of Lo-Fat milk off of plastic trays...
...most sinuous vamps of all time. Wielding sword and ray gun (not to mention skull and bones), Flash survives everything that Mongo's Ming the Merciless can throw at him: sacred droks, octosaks, shark men, iron men, hawk men, even Ming's insatiable daughter, Princess Aura. Forty years on, Dale still sounds like an escapee from a Campbell's Soup ad. Flash still does not get around to marrying her. Author-Illustrator Alex Raymond still seems to be some sort of genius...
...Summer is best described as an eclectic offering of film techniques surrounded by an aura of American westerns. There is that same kind of primeval fight for natural resources--like cattle-ranchers against sheepherders--but there is none of the glorification or romantic ornamentation. The conditions it describes are real and they have remained the same for centuries: in much of Western Turkey, where tobacco is grown, water and women are the sources of tension and feuding...