Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...school Latin teacher, the idea was heresy. Vergil, they said, was much too difficult, too full of poet's irregularities. Besides, boys at least, liked to read about wars. Rubbish, said Miss Geweke. There was adventure and glamor in the Aeneid ("It contains an exciting love affair"). It was a masterpiece, "the most balanced work in all Latin literature." And it was certainly no harder than Caesar, with his long, closely knit sentences, his use of subjunctives, indirect discourse and the historical present. The Classical Association of the Middle West and South (she is chairman of its educational policies...
...affair being to awake dangerous images...
High above all the hubbub, mildly amused by the whole affair, sat the first-place Boston Braves, who didn't need a new manager. At week's end, after winning four out of five, the Braves were eight games out front in the National League. Chuckled confident Manager Billy Southworth: "I'm a tough man to beat when I'm ahead. They're really going to have to go some to beat...
...Foreign Affair (Paramount), which displays Marlene Dietrich, Jean Arthur and John Lund against the ruins of Berlin, is obviously intended as a light satirical comedy about victors & vanquished. Unlikely as it sounds, that could be done; done well, it could be salutary as well as entertaining. But Messrs. Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder are a little too clever and a lot too inhumane to bring it off much of the time...
Like the corner saloon and professional wrestling in the old days, the seven-member Federal Communications Commission had long been a man's affair. But last week it, too, succumbed. Beamed FCC Chairman Wayne Coy: "We've had rectitude, fortitude, and solemnitude, but never before pulchritude." Thereupon pulchritudinous Frieda Hennock, successful Manhattan lawyer and active Democrat, was sworn in as the 24th commissioner in FCC's 14 years...