Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PRIVATE AFFAIR (192 pp.) -Edmund G. Love-Harcourt, Brace...
PORTLAND OREGON JOURNAL : As a citizen of Oregon, we are ashamed of Senator Morse's role in the whole affair...
...Serioja's mother remarries. The stepfather is a kindly sort (he is a collective-farm manager, though the novel is otherwise as apolitical as spring rain) who promises Serioja a shiny bicycle with a red lamp and silver bell. It is the boy's first love affair. There is the thrill of anticipation, the rapture of possession, satiety, neglect, then utter boredom as the bike rusts untouched in a kitchen corner. A new baby brother is expected, but the death of great-grandmother is more awesome. With compassionate wisdom, the stepfather assures the shaken boy: "We shan...
...manufacturer of kitchen sinks, "tall, strong, ungrammatical, and a ferocious eater." Son Ronald was an all-state basketball player in high school and a Big Ten star at Ohio State. Daughter Brenda is beautiful, plays crack tennis and goes to Radcliffe. Her suitor, Neil Klugman, tells of his summer affair with Brenda-a daytime round of basketball, pingpong, mile runs, swimming races, and a nighttime series of assignations with Brenda. The affair ends badly for everyone, with Brenda ravished, her mother prostrated, her brother a musclebound failure in business, and her father writing gamely: "You have to have faith...
Riddle of Cruelty. If war was agony to Gray, it was often a lark to Army Historian Love. War Is a Private Affair would make light reading for a bus ride to an induction center. Yet Love, like Gray, has a serious theory about men at war: "A man may deliver his body to the authorities, but he still maintains a will and a life of his own. In most cases he fits his private interest into the world in which he finds himself, but he does not give it up." To prove his point, Love tells ten stories...