Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blood and body of Nature." He partook generously. Leaving his wife and child, he moved in with a comely actress, Florence Deshon, whose temperament was much like his: she had once caused a near-riot in a theater by refusing to rise for the Star Spangled Banner. The affair was a stormy one; as Eastman torridly tells it, heaven-shattering passion alternated with earth-shaking rage...
...upshot of the whole affair is that the Ed School never even used the University loan, because the extra funds have been collected before the construction bills fell due. The building will probably be ready for use this summer...
...sole action of the play is a state senatorial inquiry into a case of child buying, in which a parade of witnesses relate their roles in the affair. This woe fully static device comes down to describing the play that isn't there. Along the way, Shyre and Hersey plunk paper bullets into pre-perforated targets-the jargon of educationists, the corrupting TV-loot mentality, the jingoistic powerelites of government, business and education. There is one brief moment of absurdly human pathos when the boy himself (Brian Chapin) agrees to go with the child buyer in the hope that...
There are many letters reflecting the affair she had several years later with John Middleton Murry, husband of Katherine Mansfield. "Why, I ask myself, was it you who should have revealed to me the richness of physical love?" Jack wrote to Frieda many years later, lamenting that he had lacked the courage to steal her from Lawrence. "And the loveliness there was between us came out of the generosity of your soul as much as the generosity of your body...
...Boston Arena Christmas Tournament during the week between Christmas and New Year's is a round-robin affair with three national powers and Harvard. Michigan, the Crimson's first opponent on Monday, Dec. 28, has already beaten Denver, the pre-season pick as the best team in the nation, by a 3-2 count...