Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...immortal life, but first exhaust the practical mechanics of living." Next day, at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin North in Wisconsin, the controversial architect took one look at Oppenheimer's inscription, snorted and wrote: "Take the science of life in your stride as the mechanics of the affair. Art and religion are the essences of being. Cultivate them - they are the payoff...
Earle Clements' disruption of Happy's love affair with the people was predictable. In six short months as governor, Chandler had succeeded in treading on sensitive Kentucky toes from the Ohio River to the Big Sandy. Quickly forgetting his campaign economy promises, Happy wheedled $39 million in new taxes out of the legislature, extended state income taxes to take in wage earners making as little as $14 a week, and, perhaps most injudiciously, boosted the state levy on whisky. Rumbled one Kentucky politician: "Not many people would walk out in the yard to vote for anybody, but they...
...also recall the affair of the doctor-plotters. Actually there was no affair outside the declaration of the woman doctor Timashuk, who was probably influenced or ordered by someone-after all, she was an unofficial collaborator of the organs of state security-to write Stalin a letter in which she declared that doctors were applying supposedly improper methods of medical treatment. Such a letter was sufficient for Stalin to reach an immediate conclusion that there are doctor plotters in the Soviet Union. He issued orders to arrest a group of eminent Soviet medical specialists. He personally issued advice...
...loss of the gold cars that makes me feel like this. And weren't they fun? They were like my children. No, it's that lovely party I was planning for 25,000 B.S.A. workers for my 50th birthday on June 23. A tiptop affair -and now it's all off. How could they do this to him after 17 years? Why, he's such a hard worker that he had a through line to the firm from our yacht...
Today, the typical alumnus still takes seriously the result of the Yale game, still exhibits staunch Class loyalty, and still has a wonderfully wild time at Reunions (the Class of '31 plans to spend $130,000 on its 25th anniversary affair). He is likely, however, to know less about Harvard's football record than about its policy in regard to "Communist" Faculty members, to work actively on the schools or scholarship committee of his local Club, to consider just what educational principles he is buying when he writes a check to his Class Fund, and to stray from the Hasty...