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...modern epic because they live on a large scale. Their "ranch," a domain of 596,000 acres, is the setting of some huge social affairs--mostly weddings and funerals--and a number of magnificent fights, all staged by director George Stevens with an eye for grand effects. The aura of grandeur surrounds even the villain of the piece, a rather boorish ranch-hand who finds oil on a little piece of land which the boss' sister leaves him, goes on to cover the rest of the state with oil wells...
...police lieutenant's seduction of a native girl to explore the poisonous influence of racism on the "European" population of South Africa. Libott clearly tried to stick closely to the structure of the novel, but in doing so missed some of its spirit. Paton's book carried a strong aura of urgency, of events sweeping toward inexorable doom, but in the play the same events often seem merely episodic...
Well-Oiled Machine. While Duplessis did the public speaking, the well-oiled Union Nationale machine rolled effectively in private. Party organizers hired hundreds of idle taxis, rented vacant rooms, found temporary work for job seekers, to spread the aura of prosperity. Free TV sets were passed out to influential householders. In at least one case, the party helped with the down payment on a doubtful voter's house...
Konrad Adenauer sat in the aura of his prestige in Secretary Dulles' dining room in Washington, straight-backed and spare his weathered mask of a face transformed by a wintry smile. "Now that Sir Winston Churchill is no longer active," said Dulles as he proposed a glowing toast, "you are the dean of the Western world." Three days later the old man sat grave-faced amid a rowdy powwow of the Oneida Indians in the student union of Wisconsin's Marquette University. "We like you to a Moses leading your people out of the wilderness," the Oneida chief...
...mystery and marvel of the 2,000-year-old scrolls found nine years ago in caves near the ruins of a religious community on the Dead Sea, two scrolls shone with a special aura. For these, instead of leather or parchment, were of copper-a precious metal in those ancient times, betokening a message of highest value. Oxidized by time, the copper scrolls stubbornly withheld their secret while scientists puttered and pondered over the problem of unrolling them without crumbling them to powder...