Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world, not even the big powers, dared to do, was done by small and forlorn Hungary. Our people started the fight for their faith in their country. The Hungarian people are waiting for the world, especially the big powers, whose business it should have been tc handle this affair, to stand up in action...
...Family Affair. Some insurgent stockholders are also fueling their campaign with charges of excessive salaries and nepotism indulged in by M-G-M brass. Says New York Judge Louis Goldstein, who says he represents more than 200,000 shares: "In 1955, Nicholas Schenck, then Loew's president, received $171,786 in salary and nontravel expenses; Charles Moscowitz, vice president and treasurer, received $156,429; Schary...
...unsavory subject is a homosexual affair between a 13-year-old boy and his 30-year-old seducer, a gas-station attendant. Tesch borrows from Jones the neo-Dreiserian conviction that life itself is a four-letter word. Among Tesch's victims and vermin: a girl who commits incest and goes mad, a wife-beating lush, an aging sadistic homosexual. The most defenseless victim is the English language, e.g., "A pang of lonesomeness settled over him like a cold wet spray." Some might argue that Tesch was a born bad writer. But Gerald, an off-and-on Handy colonist...
...real mainstay is Novelist Jones, who has expressed his whopping gratitude to Lowney by sinking $60,000 of his royalties in the colony and naming it a beneficiary in his will. Jones is on the last lap of a mammoth second novel (600,000 words written) about a love affair between a returned war veteran and a schoolteacher. He took eight years to write Eternity. "Today I can do in two years with my system," says Lowney proprietarily, "what it took Jim to do in eight...
...Continental to drink the HYRC free beer and to throw out an occasional cheer as the election landslide came in. The discordant sounds of the "King's Men," an instrumental quartet of sorts, mingled with the mumblings and chatterings of the 300-450 present to make the whole affair something less than a spontaneous exhibition of political enthusiasm...