Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was a curtained irony to the whole affair. For months, Moscow had watched with glee as Charles de Gaulle hacked away intransigently at the NATO alliance. Now, on the other side of the eroding Iron Curtain, the Russians were getting a taste of the same galling medicine. Out of many Eastern European capitals last week came reports of a Rumanian round-robin message to the nations of the Warsaw Pact...
...modern American letters. No one else, in the face of such resolute popular and critical discouragement for so many years, would persist with unsullied vocation so doggedly and prolifically in the lonely and exacting art of fiction. His unrequited passion for literature must be the most gallantly unfortunate affair since an emperor penguin fell in love with Admiral Byrd (and followed him around, hinting with gifts of egg-shaped stones that he would like to join the Navy...
...Strong Reprimand. One of the people who put him there was a fellow Tory and Diefenbaker's own former Minister of Justice, E. Davie Fulton. Fulton said he first got wind of the affair between Gerda and Associate Defense Minister Pierre Sévigny in December 1960, and informed Diefenbaker, who in turn "strongly reprimanded" Sévigny for his relationship with a "known prostitute with a doubtful security background...
Another talked-about film was Un Homme et Une Femme, a modest story of a simple love affair between a young widow (Anouk Aimée) and a racing-car driver (Jean-Louis Trintignant). New Wave Director Claude Lelouch, 28, shot the picture in four weeks, at one point had himself strapped with his camera to the hood of a speeding car to get realistic footage of the races. The crusty critics even applauded during the showing, rated the film as an homme-dinger, a top contender for the festival's first prize, the Golden Palm...
...disservice to one of the world's best storytellers to revive those last ungraceful chapters of his life, but it helps to give his readers perspective. Maugham himself, granted the chance, would surely have rewritten them. "Dying is a very dull, dreary affair," he once said. "And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with...