Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Massachusetts representatives to the World's Fair in Brussels must be full-time residents of the Bay State, contrary to information in Wednesday's CRIMSON. Governor Furcolo is looking for six students to represent Massachusetts at the seven-month affair. The state will pay expenses and Senior Tutors have the necessary information for those interested in applying...
With endless patience and dry irony, she probed the motivations of the characters. On Octavian: "He had thought that his love for the Marschallin was eternal-he is very young." When the Marschallin suggests that she will one day end the affair, and easily, "this is really the last straw for him. [He thinks.] 'Hasn't she ever loved me?' ...He doesn't understand this woman at all." On the Marschallin: "She has not a drop of sentimentality in her whole makeup, not at all. Always she has this humorous superiority which carries her through everything...
...next stage of life for Dave is his strange platonic affair with Gwen French. Gwen is teacher of "creative writing" at Parkman College, where "the sharp vinegary smell of intellectual ferment was everywhere... and the sizzling sound of the frying brains." Naturally, Dave falls into her skillet. He dreams of "a long, rich, exchangeful, reaching out, and perhaps even sometimes touching, making contact, love affair." But Gwen French believes that unrequited love drives a man to ink. Dave's novel progresses to a tattoo of discipline and advice ("Don't complexify...
...only ones who are genuinely happy during the Christmas weeks are the department store owners, who, we firmly believe, have been the motivating force behind the entire affair. A few days ago we were almost happy ourselves as we watched Mr. Macy and Mr. Gimbel frown their way through the New York City subway strike (there weren't enough kiddies around to keep their scores of Santa Clauses busy). But with the passing of the Motormen's Benevolent Association, Macy's reports that it never had it so good, so there...
...days we will watch the little ones burning all the Christmas trees in the gutters. Perhaps it will snow, and the flakes will cover the stumps of the 40,000,000 trees sacrificed to the Yule spirit. But even before the affair is over, we're tired of the ding-donging bells and the Christmas seals, of the Ice Show and the happy, bustling people. Santa can't even get slugged without someone getting arrested. We'll probably go back to our room on Christmas Eve, put an Elvis Presley Christmas Carol on the hi-fi set, and play...