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Ronald Reagan is not given to philosophic rumination, but there is something of the same aura about his crusade. Old movies around the fireplace may be fun, but nothing like this. He is an actor who has found the biggest stage in the world, who rises every day and puts on the grease paint and the smile and waits for the roar of the crowd. Some medical authorities suspect that the continuing applause for Reagan is one reason his hair has not turned gray...
...this place overwhelm them. The key is to put Harvard in perspective and realize that the purpose here like any other school is to get a well-rounded education. All that glitters is not what it seems to be. In short, don't be overwhelmed by the aura. Look for the substance...
...even become infatuated. Girls are brace-faced idiots who fill in the empty classrooms of the John Fleer School in Chicago, Ill. That makes this heart-warming tale of pubescent-bonding much simpler, of course, since females don't get in the way. Their absence casts a strange aura over this film, where the only libidinous urges come from Ruth Gordon, playing a grandmother with lust in her heart. Not that sex should be everything. But in tenth grade, sex is everything...
William P. Homans, lawyer for Penthouse International, which produced the film, yesterday agreed that testimony from the academics--"particularly Bowersock, who was very, very helpful in giving an aura of historical accuracy to the film"--helped win the case...
Princeton Political Scientist Fred Greenstein has spent several years establishing the case in a scholarly way. Eisenhower, says Greenstein, was an extraordinarily intelligent, experienced and sophisticated President who worked hard, but deliberately concealed much of his effort. "Hidden-hand leadership," says Greenstein, permitted Eisenhower to maintain his own dignified aura and personal authority with the nation (a moral authority never even approximately regained by his successors), while actively managing his presidency. Even those garbled answers at press conferences, Greenstein thinks, were a stratagem meant to conceal, soothe and deflect. Once, when Hagerty advised Ike to refuse to answer any questions...