Word: affair
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
MARRIAGE Is A PRIVATE AFFAIR-Judith Kelly-Harper...
...cost housing project. Theo bears two children rather sooner than she is spiritually adequate to the job. Their friends are solid-seeming, yet Theo finds infidelities among them, and at length, bored, crib-ridden, anesthetic towards her husband and afraid of losing her youth, she has an affair herself. When Tom, a simple, active man, finds out, it drives him half out of his wits, her into penitence, both into a cruel psychic deadlock whose detailing is the best thing in the book. Ultimately they stand ready for "the splendid, striving, accomplishing years of middle age," beside which "the years...
Sirs: I liked your treatment of the infamous "Yoo-Hoo" affair (TIME, July 21). But let's let the following bit of advice be the final word on the subject: Oh, give a cheer for General Lear, Defender of womankind...
...Attention: the keys turn in the lock, but for the affair of 300 square meters it is necessary to wait yet a few days...
...Flows Home to the Sea has almost ceased to have meaning. Though they are scarcely 20 years gone, its violent events, against the vast implacabilities which devour that same earth now, have the minute, archaic beauty of actions seen through a reversed telescope: Cossack fighting was an affair of horses, hard riding and sabers. But as a plain story of a man, a family, and a people during war, this novel has the high, nerved vividness that such Soviet films as Shors have given to that same passionate, fading scrap of history...