Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beautiful woman, currently busying herself breaking the heart of the poet Catullus, Clodia is in disfavor with old guard Romans (such as Cicero) not only because of her love affair with her brother, but because of her practice of taking parties of respectable Roman matrons to gladiators' taverns in the suburbs. Clodia has numerous love affairs, delights in building them up to some dramatic public humiliation of her lovers. Bold, self-righteous, Clodia can stand everything except the obscene verses about her which are now beginning to be scribbled in public places all over the city...
...mental processes and the doings of some of the unloveliest people ever seen outside the caricatures of George Grosz. The first of the three books is The Romantic, laid in 1888, and picturing the world of potbellied landowners and their sensitive sons, a world of meaningless propriety, duels, love affairs with actresses; a world so hedged about with tradition that it is a scandal when a young officer leaves the army to manage the family estate. It is the other side of German romanticism-Unter den Linden with the leaves off the trees; champagne parties with the girls sick...
Amazingly enough, the movie manages to retain most of the playful charm of a weekend love affair that earned the stage version a five-year run. For this feat, author John Van Druten, who was on hand in Hollywood, is presumably responsible...
...other footnote dropped from the final paragraph of the Henry Wallace affair. When the President called the Commerce Department to give Wallace his walking papers, Nover reported, "Wallace's response was so gentle and friendly that he, Truman, was almost ready to say to Wallace: 'Aw forget it, Henry...
...plague on both your houses:" Harvard had followed a foolish and niggardly policy, but the alumni should have had better taste than to wash dirty linen in public. Let Harvard pay decent wages, let the too-easily-excited alumni calm down, and let's all forget about the affair. By taking this stand, was the CRIMSON playing a constructive role? I subsequently came to the conclusion that it definitely was not, I think it was a case where the dirty linen could only be cleaned by being washed in public; and I think the CRIMSON, instead of chiding the alumni...