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...abortive tries for the Democratic presidential nomination (1952 and 1956), coupled with the defeat at Rocky's hands, dimmed the Harriman aura for awhile, but John Kennedy brought him back into public service in 1961. As an ambassador at large, Harriman conducted the sensitive negotiations that brought about the 1962 Geneva accords on Laos. A year later, he represented the U.S. during the nuclear test-ban talks and initialed the treaty with Andrei Gromyko and Britain's Lord Hailsham-perhaps the high point of Harriman's career...
Humphrey, of course, faces obvious handicaps. He is starting late. He has neither the aura of freshness nor the vocal young following that energize the Kennedy and McCarthy campaigns. He must get good marks in opinion polls. He must defend an incumbent Administration's record with little of the leverage and perquisites that an incumbent President automatically enjoys. And, while capitalizing on the Administration's accomplishments, he must overcome the me-too image if he is to attract some of the disenchanted. Further, Humphrey will be a prisoner of events during the coming months. There are primary elections...
...holy "house of study," does the guest find the home he was looking for: it seems to be the "one place in the town where you find no suffering." Yet the house of study is, in fact, abstracted from life in the village, perhaps from all life. Its aura is otherworldly-a "light that has been severed from the light of the universe and shines by itself...
What gives his music its special character is its aura of the fantastic and diabolical. Lees himself traces his fond ness for surprise and mysterious change of mood to the Dadaists and to surrealists like Duchamp, Max Ernst and Man Ray, whose works he got to know during his days in Paris from 1954 to 1962. "Surrealism is representational but in a disturbing way," says Lees. "It reminds you of a dream. This is the element I have tried to transform into music...
Junction is stained with the sooty slum aura that marks much of Poor Cow (TIME, Feb. 9), and with good reason. Both films were adapted from books by Novelist Nell Dunn. Though the story too often has the quality of pulpy sociology, Junction is saved from indistinction by Director Peter Collinson's extraordinary spirit of place, and by Suzy Kendall's chameleonlike ability to look and sound like ten different women in the course of a single film...