Word: nimbus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some reason, the more frivolous agitations of the collective antiself seem to have calmed down a little. Still, we walk around enveloped in it, like figures in the nimbus of their own ghosts on a television screen. Everything that we are not has a kind of evanescent being within us. We dream, and the dream is much of the definition of the true self. Last week Lena Home said that she has always imagined herself being a teacher. Norman Vincent Peale says fervently that he wanted to be a salesman-and of course that is, in a sense, what...
Something in Reagan has always been lucky; it has been part of his attraction, his charm, the nimbus around him. Reagan's luck has a distinctly American shine; his grin proclaims it, the confident expectation of the happy ending. That may be why the nation was drawn to him. Reagan's vehicle on the journey from Dixon, Ill., to Hollywood to the White House ran on persistence and self-knowledge, all right, but it was also propelled by a breezy admixture of the luck that the country was born with...
...certain Happy Days sentimentality has encouraged the idea that America in the '50s was touchingly innocent, but at the time the nation seemed infinitely more complicated than that, hugely varied, exuberant and, at this distance, rather strange. The benign nimbus of Eisenhower presided over all of it, and if people snickered at him behind his back, they seemed like adolescents wisecracking about the Old Man, Oedipal maybe, but not completely malicious...