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Something of the aura of the tradition-encrusted House never fails to flood in around even the most jaded Lowellian as he walks into the Courtyard--possibly the most beautiful spot in the entire University...
...greeted with a recent erasure in Webster's New Collegiate. Exactly what he'll find where urban community development once stood is hard to say -- perhaps something like "better burg breeding" or "coached community commotion" or any one of a thousand possible locutions which would shed an aura of respectability on an undertaking whose very nature suggests a lurking, sleight-of-hand presence...
...Carter writes that I have unjustly attributed an aura of "fraternal complacency" to some Nieman classes during the Lyon's tenure as curator. For a description of the program under Lyon's leadership I was forced to rely on his two books for information. When I requested an interview he declined, telling me that "What I have to say is in my books." In Reporting the News, Lyons pictures the Fellows primarily as members of a prestigious organization, and secondarily as independent scholars. I took Lyons at his written word when he described the evolution of the Nieman program from...
Despite an aura of unflappable self-confidence that sometimes approached arrogance, Bundy was willing-and able-to learn. Although he had been one of the Kennedy Administration's most ardent hawks in supporting the bungled Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961, he later consistently counseled caution in such tight situations as the Berlin Wall crisis and the Cuban missile confrontation...
Most Cliffies welcomed "a place to study in the Yard." Several girls said they were sick of the atmosphere in. Widener reading room, and thought that Lamont would have an "aura conducive to study." "We expect to meet some fine, sensitive human beings there," said a group at Comstock...