Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many musicians felt it was just as well; it would hardly have been a happy affair. Said one: "Everybody feels under suspicion . . . There is very little conversation ... It's frozen the situation...
...years the diaries were kept, Kafka became engaged to a generous and efficient young businesswoman. For five years the affair dragged on, but Kafka finally broke off because the girl could never understand his way of living and because he feared that as a sick and. indigent writer he would be a burden to her. In his diary he yearns for marriage and normal happiness; the thought of children makes him ecstatic. Once an apartment was rented and furniture bought, but his self-doubts forced him to turn back. In one entry he sadly and ironically remarks that his fiancee...
This is a paradoxical position and leaves the affair wide open to criticism. On the one hand the Smoker is charged with pulling the Yard together; on the other the Committee says that freshmen aren't ready for "unity" or "orientation" or any other Smoker blessings until the spring term is well underway. By February freshmen are pretty well oriented anyway, and it's a bit late for the Smoker to do much good...
Tuesday evening's concert of the Boston Symphony in Sanders Theater was pretty much of a family affair. Igor Stravinsky conducted, his son Soulima was the piano soloist, and the music was, of course, all Stravinsky. Indeed, the entire atmosphere of the concert was one of a family gathering, intent on making music and not worrying too much about the quality of performance...
...whole affair at Seattle has the macabre air of the trial of the knave of hearts in Alice's Wonderland. Dr. Allen invents interpretations; Miss Thompson and Mr. Smith sit in the Jury Box, busily scribbling "due process" on their slates; and the rest of the press shout "off with their heads." But while Alice's dream of the knave's trial vanished, we may find the nightmare of the University of Washington spreading to legislators and trustees all over the country...