Word: affair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than eighty people braved the storm Friday evening to attend an informal concert of the Composers' Laboratory in Paine Hall. The affair was arranged to provide Laboratory members with a chance to hear their recent works and to test them out on an audience--a necessary step in the development of young composers...
...Canadians want their own nationals to have a crack at top management positions of the Canadian subsidiaries. They want the Canadian company to be a separate affair ... I know that several American companies with important interests in Canada are at this moment considering ways and means for accomplishing exactly [that] . . . rather than await or invite the intervention of government on either side of the border...
...enacted, these changes in federal campaign expenditure laws would prevent the recurrence of incidents like the Case affair. With the prestige of the McClellan committee behind them, these revisions might pass before the next election. The McClellan group should, therefore, recommend the changes and Congress should enact them...
...first glance, Graham Greene seems to have changed his theme. His recent novels-The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter, The End of the Affair-were religious dramas about the human soul struggling amid gin-or-tea trivialities between salvation and damnation. In his latest novel, he writes of individuals who stand for worlds and nations-the U.S., Britain, Asia-struggling amid blood-and-opium enormities between relative degrees of misrule. Yet in a sense, the heart of the matter is still the same. Whatever uncozy corner Greene chooses for his settings, whether West Africa, Mexico, Indo...
Within the year, the newlyweds invite Mira for a visit to their big-city home. In due time she meets Richard again. With India's sun-scorched earth and evergreen-crowned peaks for a backdrop, their illicit love affair is a many-splendored dream. They wake up to the man-made India riven by hate. In a tragedy of errors, Kit and Premala are murdered by nationalist extremists, and as the episode ramifies, Mira and Richard find that not even their love can break through the sociocultural barrier...