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...care a whit if he (unlike Jimmy Stewart and Gregory Peck) is killed during the course of a picture. Cab drivers, burglars and women admire him. And on top of all this, as an Academy-Award winner (for his part in African Queen), he also lends a film an aura of distinction...
Republicans went to Washington in January 1953, with a mandate to clean out the mess left by a Democratic Party too long in power. In a way, they succeeded: the aura of graft no longer hangs over the U.S. Government. In other ways, they have failed. Some of the Democratic mess remains. And the Republicans have created some of their...
...Bostonian* ever to achieve his position. More remarkable, he was born and bred in Iowa (a place that Boston dowagers have allegedly been calling "Ohio"). His present position therefore represents quite a leap, for Harvard can still remember the days when the movements of its presidents had an aura all their own. "The President is in Washington," ran one Harvard communique, "seeing Mr. Taft...
...take in the act of Shiva and Her Snake, described in Saturday's CRIMSON. I feel compelled to point out one inaccuracy: your writer said that the orchestra accompanied Shiva's act with "something Arabian," whereas it was actually Persian music. A petty correction? Yes. But in the present aura of international discord, it ill behooves us to lay ourselves open in any way to charges of anti-Persianism...
...addition to this misguided view of the office itself, many other factors help to create the aura of mystery which surrounds the entire admissions system of the College...