Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Musical Valise." It is not solely a matter of technique: he has always had an abundance of that. It has to do rather with style, with the maturing of a heart and mind plunged into a lifelong love affair with music and, to a degree few men are blessed to know, with life itself. Fired by this infinite capacity for self-renewal, Rubinstein has simply never stopped improving. Where the artistry of most virtuosos begins to decline at about 60, he has conquered the heady impetuosity that sometimes flawed the playing of his early years. He thrives by infusing...
Novel it is not, but it is a novel autobiography. The author is not the victim of an unsatisfactory love affair with his own personality: he takes himself for granted and spends his space telling about other people, places and ideas. And what people! Rexroth's book is a Who's Non-Who of every oddball in the nonEstablishment U.S. of the past generation-feminists, Wobblies, Free Silver men, free-love ladies, anarchists, proto-bolsheviks, pacifists, radicals, populists, vegetarians, ragged Utopians, prophets without portfolio and plain cranks. His record makes the current anti-Establishment of beatnik non-opters...
...Congo crisis of 1961-62 was no simple affair, even if its complexities tend to merge in one's memory into a vast bloodbath. Probably no one is more aware of those complexities than Conor Cruise O'Brien, who was at times their author, but in the end their victim...
...Boston Garden last night. The Crimson, the longest of long shots in the annual highlight of Boston's collegiate winter sports season, scored first and held the Terriers in a 1-1 check for the first period. But B.U. exploded for five second-period goals as the one-sided affair degenerated into a sloppy slugfest...
Graham Greene's latest novel has all the ingredients of a successful suspense story: it is set in Haiti, a small, romantic island run by a cruel dictator; the narrator, owner of a deserted luxury hotel, is carrying on an affair with an ambassador's wife; the action is a network of plots and violent encounters with the sinister secret police, climaxing in an unachieved revolution. But the book is deadly dull. The characters drag through their parts listlessly, like unconvinced actors, hardly caring what happens to them. Events pile up without meaning or suspense. Graham Greene has written some...