Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the most striking French fiction comes from precocious teenagers writing about teenagers. In Devil in the Flesh, 17-year-old Raymond Radiguet showed a boy drawn into a love affair with an older married woman and swamped by the first rush of passion. In Awakening, Jean-Baptiste Rossi, 16, told a startling but sensitive story of a love affair between a youngster and a Roman Catholic nun. In The Illusionist (written three years ago) 22-year-old Françoise Mallet, a Parisian housewife and mother, tells perhaps the strangest tale of all, that of a 15-year...
Tobin, meanwhile, observed a large number of Young Democrats walking down Massachusetts Avenue, probably thinking that the whole affair was a great flop. He rapped furiously on the car's windows, and this made some of the members turn back. The car drove up without fanfare, with only a handful of passerbys looking on. The Governor go out of the car, and walked alone to the Littauer steps where Sam Huntington, a Government instructor, greeted him. Inside, the library and the offices disgorged a multitude who wished to see "The Governor." He waved. With Tobin tagging behind, Dever mounted...
...recommendation for an "orientation Smoker" early in the Fall is therefore a wise one. Getting acquainted is a problem of the weeks of adjustment, a problem of the first term, not the second. Only if the Smoker takes place in the first weeks of the school year can the affair realize its aim by introducing freshmen to their classmates...
...money went for a political rally Friday night, beer, an advertisement in the CRIMSON for the affair, and publication of more than 500 "Handbooks for Action," described as "scurrilous" and a "parody of the Democratic campaign" by club members...
...authorities refused to comment at length on the affair. They did say a letter Cohen wrote in 1950 urging conditional recognition of Communist China by the United Nations drew suspicion to himself...