Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next development brought British reaction to the boiling point. Out of Athens came reports that Career Diplomat Cavendish Welles Cannon, U.S. Ambassador to Greece, had followed up the Washington statement with an expression of "sympathetic concern" for Greece, and praise for Greek "dignity and statesmanship" in the affair. British newspapers promptly roared that this was an insult to Great Britain (a "kick in the teeth," said London's Daily Mail); Sir Roger Makins, Britain's Ambassador to the U.S., officially demanded an explanation...
...which was taking up some three hours of his leisure. "If it displeases you," said Olivier, "I will be outraged with myself." The President was not displeased. Even if he had been, this first trip to a theater since his heart attack was more than an evening out: the affair was a benefit for the Washington Heart Association...
Black Cloud. The paradox of the whole affair was that the storm, despite its beginnings, had turned into a phenomenon so real that it had fooled many a Republican. G.O.P. Chairman Len Hall was one of the first to see it coming and tried to head it off; immediately after Ike announced his intention of running for a second term, Hall hailed Nixon as a "great American," adding, "and a great American is, in my opinion, a strong candidate...
...Divorce. Instead of treating marriage as a social institution, let alone a divine one, U.S. public opinion "tends to regard marriage as a private affair." As divorce becomes more and more accepted as a solution to marriage failures, Catholics tend to feel more and more hardship in denying divorce...
Patrick soon runs an erotic fever of his own over a nubile, neo-pagan teenager named Soula. Little more than fugitive kisses and caresses, the affair with Soula is tragically complicated by the fact that her brother Stavro, a boy with crypto-homosexual longings, feels he should rank first in Patrick's affections. By novel's end, Soula has died at her brother's hand. Resignedly estranged from each other, Patrick and Iris leave Corfu chewing the bitter rind of memory, all that is left of their brief repast of the juices and joys of the sensuous...