Word: affair
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There have been 296 previous Harvard Commencements, one of which was honored by the presence of Andrew Jackson, another by that of George Washington. The distinction of today's affair is that it is by far the biggest ever. This year's exercises do not differ very much in plan from those of the first Commencement Day, which came late in August, six years after the founding of the College. During the three centuries since then only a few graduations have been cancelled, but there have been several formidable threats to the proceedings...
...chief plot of "Les Eufants" concerns the nebulous love affair of an unwordly mime, Baptiste, and a tarnished but not unattractive young lady named Garance. Around this powerfully developed theme lie constellations of characters and stories: the rise of Frederick, the Actor of the Age; the life and death of Garance's titled paramour; and glimpses into the lives of actors and criminals and others too numerous to describe...
...harried George Allen, the ex-ambassador to Iran who took over the Voice after the silly broadcasts had been made, admitted the State Department's failure to monitor its own broadcasts. NBC, which conceded its own negligence, had already fired those responsible for the scripts. The whole graceless affair was a prime example of how Congress, in an election year, can hold itself at arm's length and punch its own nose. For Congress had 1) given the Voice so little money that it was unable to keep the frog out of its throat; 2) insisted that private...
...Last week's masque cost ?550 ($2,200). The 17th Century affair cost ?2,666-and in those days pounds were sterling...
Dissected Love Affair. Professor Tinbergen observed this byplay; then he took it apart. First he proved that the male would attack as a rival a crude dummy fish with a red belly like his own. Professor Tinbergen then made a dummy with a swollen abdomen. This released a chain of mating reactions in the eager male, which tried to entice the dummy into his waiting nest...