Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...further substitute for God, we are given sex, largely in the form of a wholly fictional love-affair between Moses and a princess of Egypt. Even if such an interpolation into the Biblical story were entirely in good taste-which is open to question-the fact remains that it is dramatically unsound. While Charlton Heston, who plays Moses, and Anne Baxter, the princess, unquestionably make a handsome couple, their embraces shed no light on the problem of how Moses, portrayed as on the threshold of the Egyptian throne, becomes a prophet and the deliverer of an enslaved race. Like...
What appears to have occurred in Hungary, Nehru explained to a Congress Party meeting in Calcutta, is an internal affair, civil conflicts on a rather large scale. "Much of the trouble occurred after Rus sian troops were withdrawn ... It was at this stage-something that is not quite clear-that the government almost ceased to function. The government split up, and one faction-maybe the bigger faction-called itself the government, and pushed the smaller faction and the Premier out. The new government invited the Soviet forces to come back and quell the disturbances. I am giving the facts without...
During the tragic Autherine Lucy affair (TIME, Feb. 13 et seq.) Carmichael was caught between those who thought he should have taken a bolder stand for principle and those who blamed him for allowing a Negro to get into the university in the first place. He began to receive anonymous phone calls accusing him of being a "nigger lover." Gradually, his trustees began to turn against him, and the strain became too much...
...this could only be true if none of her familiar Western big-power antagonists were among the interveners, and would not then be sure. But it is highly questionable whether an effective force could be amalgamated from the other U.N. countries, especially when it is considered that the Egyptian affair, has already drained off a large part of the available manpower. Furthermore, some of the nations that saw a responsibility to send troops to Suez might not construe such an obligation for Hungary. If a weak army were sent into Hungary and was shortly defeated, considerable pressure might...
...Chungking (1942), it was her barely disguised experiences as a young girl whose pleasant existence in Peking was rudely shattered by war. Her husband, Chinese General Tang Pao Huang, was killed, but Elizabeth (her real name) made it to Hong Kong. There she had a passionate and publicly observed affair with British War Correspondent Mark Elliott, and having kissed, she proceeded to tell in A Many-Splendored Thing (TIME. Dec. 8, 1952"). When Elliott was killed in Korea. Han Suyin declared that love could never come again. But only months later she had married a British policeman whose...