Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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VICTORIAN SCANDAL, by Roy Jenkins. The Dilke Case was the Profumo Affair of the Victorian era, a politico-sexual scandal that rocked an administration and blasted the career of the man who at 42 had already been designated as Gladstone's successor. The story is authoritatively told by Historian Roy Jenkins, Home Secretary in Britain's Labor government...
Johnson's overriding problem-and the nation's-is, of course, Viet Nam. The war there has not yet become a divisively unpopular one, as did Korea by 1952, but it is a gnawing, worrisome affair, more so because this is an election year. Already it is consuming not only money and manpower but vast stores of the nation's time and energy. Some time in 1966, the U.S. must decide what it hopes to achieve with this huge expenditure. It must decide where it is headed in Viet Nam and the rest of Asia, and whether...
Between Two Epochs. Mrs. Tuchman finds equal significance in the Dreyfus Affair: "While it lasted, France exhibited, as in the Revolution, political man at his most combative. Men plunged up to the hilt of their capacities and beliefs. They held nothing back. On the eve of the new century the Affair revealed what energies and ferocities were at hand to greet it." And as Jaurès' death dramatized, it was the era in which the Socialist notion that all the workers of the world could unite on anything turned out to be fantasy...
...December. His detractors feel that even if his participation had not been able to avert the strike his inaction was inexcusable. But Mayor Wagner had objected to Lindsay's participation in city government before he took office. More important, was Lindsay's belief that the collective bargaining was an affair between the union and the autonomous Transit Authority. He rightly believed that the government should enter a labor dispute only when an impasse has stalled fruitful negotiations. On New Year's Day, however, despite all efforts, bargaining had hardly begun...
What happened, however, becomes more comprehensible if the affair is regarded as a case study in academic politics. As in any politics the fate of a proposal depends not only on what its substance is, but on who does the proposing. The sponsors of the senior seminar plan were drawn from the Department's virtually powerless junior faculty, while the men who came up with the idea of junior generals were all established senior faculty members. Small wonder, then, that the tutors' initiative took a form that they had never intended...