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...midst of controversial issues all my life," he replies to queries about the New Deal or the Supreme Court. "This is not the time for that." He has already achieved substantially all the honors that can be accorded to a lawyer. He retires from the University in an aura of faculty-student regret at giving up a great thinker and a great teacher. But it is an aura of mutual good will...
...Francisco, Dr. Margaret Mead, ethnologist of the American Museum of Natural History, told a conference of social workers that romantic love, with its "whole myth-laden aura," is wrecking the institution of marriage...
...twisted him into an inscrutable New England patriarch (the play) and now into a harmless old crone whose inner conflict is no greater than the woes of a lovelorn son and daughter. Not only is George Apley altered to fit the needs of non-New England audiences, but the aura of Beacon Hill and Louisburg Square is wrenched out of reality and transformed into a cross between a high-mannered Bedlam and meeting night at the Witch-Burners' Society...
Bathed in a nostalgic aura all its own, rowing on the Charles represents to the world outside Cambridge a contrast to legendary Harvard indifference. While current sports-writers rhapsodize over Gannons and Mariaschins, the College's "old grad" elements gather in their Clubs or at class reunions to reminisce about the great Crimson crews and the numerous, almost unbroken string of victories over Yale. It's a monopoly, they say, and glow the cocky glow of a giant in Yale-Harvard competition...
...month quasi-embargo on the expert of vital foodstuffs to Bolivia, Argentina's dictator, Juan D. Peron, has succeeded in sweating an important trade contract out of mineral-rich Bolivia and has added another balky satellite to his growing sphere of influence. The pact was ostensibly signed in an aura of good will and mutual agreement, but actually was achieved through a complete strangulation of Bolivian economy. Dependent on Argentina for ninety percent of its wheat and sixty percent of its meat quota, the newly democratic government unwisely flaunted its independence in Peron's whiskers and speedily found that...