Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Have it known, therefore, that you are not unofficial ambassadors to the Harvard Summer School from anywhere. "Harvard indifference" is more than a cliche; there is a certain feeling in Cambridge that what you are or do is your own affair and nobody else...
...Catered Affair (MGM) is another Bronx cheer, more affectionate than derisive, for the marital problems of the lower middle class. Like the Oscar-winning Marty (TIME, April 18, 1955), the film was originally a TV play by Paddy Chayefsky, the troubadour of the tenements, and it has much the same shirtsleeved intimacy and gamy humor...
...home in Cuba, Author Ernest Hemingway was mad enough to fight a duel over an affair of honor. A shabby tale, widely spread by prattling European magazines, was depicting Papa as the very worst kind of literary thief. Nobelman Hemingway, went the yarn, had promised a poor Cuban fisherman a new boat in exchange for the old man's own true sea stories, from which Papa then drew his famed novelette, The Old Man and the Sea. With callous ingratitude, he had never even thanked his pitiful source of such profitable material. When the ugly canard, headed "Old Miguel...
Despite all the discouraging incidents during this second year after the Supreme Court decision, there has been one outstanding event which embodies what we mean by gradualism and moderation: the Montgomery bus boycott. It was a local affair. Local leaders began it, for limited, local goals. It did not even aim at complete integration on busses; it merely sought the right for Negroes to sit in white sections during crowded hours. The NAACP here operated at its best: its local members were acting not as pawns of what appears to many Southerners as a dangerous outside organization, but as respectable...
...Miss Lucy affair at Tuscaloosa, Mississippi's Till murder case, and the Montgomery bus boycott all illustrate the pent-up emotion in the South which comes to the surface periodically. Similarly, the March Declaration of Constitutional Principles issued by 19 Senators and 77 Representatives, all from the South, illustrates the new determination and the new organization of the whites: "we regard the decision of the Supreme Court in the school cases as clear abuse of judicial power . . . This unwarranted exercise of power by the court, contrary to the Constitution, is creating chaos and confusion in the states primarily affected...