Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EVENING OF THE HOLIDAY, by Shirley Hazzard. Because she writes with delicacy and precision and never succumbs to the obvious, Author Hazzard has produced a haunting and near-perfect first novel about the brief affair in Italy of two not-so-young, not-so-passionate lovers...
...game was an incredibly sluggish and sloppy affair throughout most of the first half, and was tied 15-15 with eight minutes to play. Then Neville entered the game. He sank every shot he attempted--three from the corner, two from the circle, and one free throw--giving the Crimson a 34-26 halftime lead...
...ridiculed. As in all senseless episodes, only epilogues were wanting: for the Clutter family murder, an explanation of such infrequent violence; for the New Yorker's reputation, unequivocal proof of current literary merit. The publication of In Cold Blood, Truman Capote's "non-fiction novel" on the Clutter affair, recently serialized in the New Yorker, triumphantly answers both needs...
...abandoned the mellifluous language honed for his previous work, and discovered a new diction--based on listening to a staggering amount of mental transcription taken from the entire cast of a protracted drama--to handle the lives, minds, and language of those directly and indirectly implicated in the Clutter affair...
...results of that lack, bear in mind that it was the most extreme test of his objectivity. As a friend of the killers he suffered privately and had their graves marked; as artist and craftsman he raised a public monument to the questions posed by the Clutter affair...