Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arkansas affair, I envy Americans only one thing: the opportunity to surrender an American passport...
...Free Speech!" Most Poles seemed to regard the riots as a strictly student affair. Biggest unknown was whether the students' protests would be taken up by Poland's well-organized and politically conscious factory workers, who had been in the forefront of the Poznan rebellion. If they were, Gomulka would find himself in serious trouble. So far, most major factory-workers units refused to sign petitions calling on the students to desist...
...typical modern American musical flounders around happily and loudly in the realm of brassy mediocrity. A star or two nearly inevitably thrusts his or her personality into the affair in order to please the expense accounters and fill up the marquee--and, of course, to drag the smiling mess along. There are occasionally a few minutes' worth of tolerable or colorful or amusing songs and/or dance routines. There is nearly never much of a plot, nor is there much acting...
...high-caliber reserve talent the Royal Ballet can call on when it needs to. Margot Fonteyn's enchainement (linked movements) looked as poised and effortless as everybody expected; there was also some lithe, beautifully filigreed dancing by Rowena Jackson, Nadia Nerina, Svetlana Beriosova. Solitaire, a less panoplied affair, unfolded the story of a girl who does not belong, and tries to break into the games of "the insiders." Anya Linden, in the lead, expressed her loneliness in a series of crabbed progressions that contrasted harshly and movingly with the tossing gusto of the other dancers...
...Saturday, Zobel gave the following account of the affair to State police in Holyoke...