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...superb New York production of 1950, Alec Guinness brought an aura of mystery and suave authority to the part of Harcourt-Reilly, and Irene Worth as Celia evoked a taut sense of spiritual crisis. Without their skills, the confessional-psychiatric dialogue, which sends Celia off to her eventual anthill, sounds surprisingly specious and unconvincing. Suddenly more awkward than intriguing are Eliot's pomposities, like the stilted toast that the three Guardians intone to the future of their charges. And it no longer seems much fun to speculate on the writer's half-veiled allusions (do a pair...
...synthehippie might make a passable reduction, were it not for the ignorance of its creators (many moviehippies expound at length on the differences between acid and LSD), and the aura of creeping Barry Goldwaterism expressed in (as far as I can detect) the first pejorative use of the word "love." When a moviehippie says he just wants to wander around loving everything in sight, we can almost always detect the tone of a lurking scriptwriter at some pains to imply that the sonofabitch ought to get off the streets and earn a decent living. Moviehippies are often surprisingly well...
...lived a jungle-boy existence for twelve years. In 1880, when slavery was abolished in Cuba, he returned to human society. His descriptions of village life resurrect a forgotten world. He recalls work, fiestas, cock fights, fashions and trysts in the cane fields with a simplicity that imparts an aura of vitality and grace. Even the supernatural is treated in a tone as matter of fact as a fried egg: "If a person wants to make a pact with the Devil, the old Congolese told me, he should take a hammer and a big nail, look for a young ceiba...
...years at hard labor for advocating talks with the National Liberation Front. The Premier tried to change Thieu's mind, but he failed. Yet in less than three months in office, Huong has given the premiership-and with it, by extension, civilian government in South Viet Nam-an aura of respectability it had never attained under others. Huong's hope is that the aura will grow. As one of the Premier's associates put it last week: "We do not expect to last for a long time. But many of the things we have accomplished will...
...activities were severely restricted. He withdrew more and more completely into mystical seclusion, poring over volumes of poetry and developing a passionate interest in that plant life around his suburban Vienna home. His calm perseverance as a composer in the face of ridicule and neglect gave him a saintly aura. To see him touch a single note on the piano, said Swiss Conductor Ernest Ansermet, was to see a man in an act of devotion...