Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clash of strong cultures is likely to be a god-eat-god affair. Each may conceive the other as strange, wrongheaded, downright wicked. An individual caught up in such a conflict sees himself as a missioner to the heathen, clad in the righteous armor of the sole truth, his own. In this compact novel of grace and distinction, John (Hiroshima, The Wall) Hersey captures the essential pathos of such culture struggles, seeing them as encounters between two goods rather than between good and evil. In A Single Pebble, a story set against the backdrop of the China of three decades...
...added that "despite serious efforts on the part of past Committees, the Smoker has become an affair unworthy of the dignity and traditions of Harvard; furthermore, it has perennially proved to be actually dangerous to a few Freshmen, and potentially so to many more...
...traditional beer-slinging affair had come in for heavy criticism all year from members of the Union Committee, led by Chairman Mark Earle. In addition, the Student Council had appointed a committee to report on the Smoker next fall...
...Anne goes off to the U.S. (Simone made a tour of the U.S. in 1947). In Chicago Anne meets a novelist whose special province is slum life ("Why are all your best friends pickpockets, or drug addicts, or pimps?" she asks him). In spite of his intellectual limitations, their affair takes on the temperature and pace of a prairie fire, and Anne comes back the following year for more of the same. But after two hot summers of this, the novelist cools and, chastened, Anne returns to her fellow mandarins...
Food & Drink. By this time Henri has married Anne's wayward daughter and has decided to publish an intellectual weekly with Husband Robert. For them, writing and talking are food and drink. But Anne, not so easily nourished, comes close to suicide-not only because of her broken affair, but because she has that old existentialist idea that life is empty. It is just here, in the very last paragraph of The Mandarins, that Priestess de Beauvoir chooses to suggest that existentialism is not simply a philosophy of pessimism. Just because life is essentially meaningless, she seems...