Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, President Warfield had stepped aside as a fundraiser. Said he: "This is a student affair, not a dodge by a bankrupt college trying to bail out the group that put money into...
This is a simple story of a New York boy of middle-class background who becomes a poet, sails to South America and back on a freighter, has a love affair with a girl in Greenwich Village, and goes to Paris. It is one more report on that special subdivision of the American Dream in which poets, artists, musicians and other emancipated spirits defy the Philistines, have love affairs without tears, and go forth alone to meet a hostile and uncomprehending world...
...Briton decried "witch-hunting" of Communists in this country, and said, "In ten years you will be as ashamed of it as you were ten years after the Mitchell-Palmer affair...
...complacent assumption . . . that they will pick up the debris of the British Empire . . ." His own remarks to Roosevelt are sometimes genially humble ("I am so grateful to you for all the trouble you have been taking . . ."), sometimes confidently flattering ("I am sure that, with your comprehension of the sea affair, you will not let this crux ... go wrong for want of ... destroyers"). The blunt instrument is reserved for extreme use: "Mr. President, with great respect I must tell you that in the long history of the world this is a thing...
Meanwhile, the novelist tells the stories of the Negroes whose lives are directly touched by this affair-the Rogers family, Ezekiel's secretary, Bessie Mathews, and her hard-working brother, Luther, who tends bar at a hotel in Citrus City and later goes to work in a shipyard. Author Moon writes of people like Luther with great warmth of insight and a fine ear for inflections of speech. On the other hand, there is something a little too Galahad-like about the radical Negro intellectual, Eric Gardner, whom President Rogers is finally called on to defend against Cal Thornton...