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Word: affair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after the liberation. Most of them are famous writers who figured in the resistance and wrote some of France's best contemporary books. What is more to the point, they are barely disguised in The Mandarins. It also gives a detailed account of the French heroine's affair with a Chicago novelist, so candid and anguished as to read like a letter to a confessor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who Knows? | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

...Freshman Union Committee has passed the problem of what to do about the Smoker on to next year's Committee. At its final meeting of the year last night, the Yard group failed to muster the votes necessary to abolish the annual Memorial Hall affair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '59 Postpones Smoker Vote Until Autumn | 5/22/1956 | See Source »

...best efforts last week television dropped the boy-meets-girl formula in favor of separating the sexes. The women took superb command in Maurice Evans' production of The Cradle Song, a fable about a love affair between an abandoned infant and the nuns of a Spanish convent. Visually, it was as attractive as anything seen this year, with the beautiful faces of novices hanging raptly over the child's crib and their lullabies blending with the plainsong devotions from the chapel. The play was dreamlike, as sweet as a sugar bun and scarcely more substantial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...same time, Cliff F. Thompson '56, George F. Frederickson '56, and Robert H. King '57 will debate the affirmative against Yale, in a similar affair, while a Yale team debates at Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard, Yale, Princeton Meet Tonight in Triangular Debates | 5/11/1956 | See Source »

Although the cast made a few first night slips, nobody seemed to mind. While Babs Loomis as Mad Margaret and John Holcenberg as Sir Roderick added a convincing supernatural touch to the whole affair, Elizabeth Petersen, Bruce Macdonald, and Robert Cortright added very solid singing performances...

Author: By Lewis M. Steel, | Title: Ruddigore | 5/4/1956 | See Source »

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