Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dancing Out the Love. Sponsor of the affair was the Comité Officiel des Fètes de Paris, which likes to start each tourist season with a cultural eye-opener. The committee began with the idea of using the Louvre's 3½-acre Cour Carrée, one side of which is dominated by a superb Renaissance clock tower. What could be more appropriate than to stage a version of the Renaissance tale of Romeo and Juliet? And what treatment of that theme could be more grandiose than French Composer Hector Berlioz' half-symphony, half-opera...
...school senior will get an academic diploma -some New York City school officials were reportedly considering a move to disregard the traditional exam entirely, apparently on the theory that what Johnny doesn't know shouldn't hurt him. Among the questions regarded as too tough: "The Maximilian affair caused the United States to protest to the government of 1) France, 2) Great Britain, 3) Russia, 4) Spain"; "Which of these was in existence from the loth to the 19th century: 1) Hanseatic League, 2) Holy Alliance, 3) Ottoman Empire, 4) Holy Roman Empire...
Love & History. The public has been fed situation comedy until it is almost fed up (TIME, June 27), but viewers still love I Love Lucy. How long the love affair will continue depends on how much comic inventiveness Desi and Lucy can put into their formula of a young couple getting in and out of slapstick situations with a well-shaken mixture of low-class cunning and high-class ineptitude. Last week the re-run of an old Lucy was neither comic nor inventive. Lucy's idea of fun was to return repeatedly to a nightclub...
...moody, modey tune that began with the sound of footsteps in the rain and ended on the indeterminate, to-be-continued note. Its words revealed a valid adolescent's dream: a chance encounter, a blooming love affair, a tragic ending when the man borrowed her money to buy her a ring and then "skipped out of town," never to be seen again...
...example, he writes "...I would find it difficult to justify Professor Furry's refusal to disclose, to the authorized government authorities, the identity fo his five fellow members in the Party while he was working for the Army Signal Corps... this affair lies so close to the security of the state that I believe a citizen with knowledge off its details should put that information in the Government's hands...