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Signs & Symbols. Since he got out of internment in 1945, Arcand has made a living by doing French-English translations ("for friends") and by painting portraits. He thinks his internment may have helped him by giving him the aura of a martyr. He admits that he is only biding his time...
...aura of hostility greets Frieda when she arrives in Denfield before the war has even ended. Miss Robson as Aunt Nora, a "cold, logical woman," realizes that her chances to gain a seat in the House of Commons are ruined if she condones her nephew's marriage to a German. Publically she proclaims that all Germans are alike and thus voices the belief of most others as well. But privately she tells Frieda that in six months nine-tenths of the community would come to accept her but there would always be the other tenth...
This year the familiar pattern has again been--unwillingly but faithfully followed. The Harvard and Yale teams have fallen far short of preseason hopes or expectations. But, as in the past, both conscious strategy and the insidious but unconscious aura of the game inexorably combine to save the special play, the hardest tackle, the all-out effort, for today. The explosion that inevitably follows produces exciting football, unexcelled football. It is touched of when two ordinary teams suddenly find their particular niche in the unpredictable common denominator that is football and become part of a legend...
...monthly visits to tree-shaded Coshocton, where his wife and his unmarried daughter Clara still live in a green-shuttered, red-brick house, Bill Green enjoys the aura which is the reward of famous...
...only two weeks of the year, Red Top, consisting mainly of a two-story, gray building with crimson shutters, a few scattered cottages, and Bacon Boat-house, is inhabited by Harvard men. And, until after the races, it has a quiet aura of inhabitation...