Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more typical American contender in the Sagan sweeps is Pamela Moore, 18, a Barnard College senior, whose novel Chocolates for Breakfast will appear later this month. It deals with a fading movie star's daughter named Courtney Farrell, who between 15 and 17 has an affair with her mother's gigolo-a homosexual until the heroine sets him straight. After that it's just one Yale man after another, until Courtney turns for intellectual companionship and "decency" to a Harvard law graduate-an "older...
...particularly ardent dancers and even become professional dancers, despite or perhaps owing to their frigidity. Others are sculptors, potters, nurses or thieves. If they are not doctors or dentists themselves, they 'happen' to attract their dentist, whose advances then fill them with horror. Some have an affair with a spy or have in some way been associated with espionage...
...schedule that amounts to a happy truce with the business of earning a living. Spanish morning begins at 10 a.m., noon comes at 2 p.m. and early afternoon at 4:30 p.m. No Spaniard who is anyone goes to work before noon. Lunch is a two-or three-hour affair beginning at 2 p.m., and dinner stretches from 11 p.m. into the small hours of the morning. Among upper-class Spaniards and those who aspire to that state, too much interest in work is considered bad form; if business must be done, let it be concluded...
Kaiser Aluminum Hour (Tues. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Ferenc Molnar's A Fragile Affair, with Eli Wallach, Gaby Rodgers...
...student, but essentially a kind of sophisticated Gallic equivalent of a rock-'n'-roller. She smokes incessantly, drinks Scotch methodically and goes to bebop dances at a nightclub called the "Kentucky."' Much of the time she is "bored passionately," and her casual, completely physical love affair with Bertrand, a fellow student, rarely takes the edge off that boredom. Then Bertrand introduces her to his uncle Luc and Dominique decides hopefully: "He's just the kind that seduces little girls like...