Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Revolution--like everything before the twentieth century--is popularly believed to have been a cut-and-dried affair, a simple matter of momentous decisions and memorable epigrams. The Boston Tea Party demonstrates, in plentiful detail, how perplexingly "modern" the world had become 200 years ago. This excellent narrative explores every facet of the highly complicated events which moved the British colonies toward independence from 1767 to 1774. Harvard has all the more reason to welcome it because the author, Benjamin Labaree, now Dean of Williams College, was once Senior Tutor of Winthrop House...
Emerging from his presidential jet at San Diego's airport one night last week, Lyndon Johnson stopped to chat with newsmen. When one of the reporters referred to the Jenkins affair, the President suddenly exploded: "President Eisenhower had the same type of problem with his appointments secretary. The only difference is, we Democrats felt sorry for him and thought it was a case of sickness and disease, and we didn't try to capitalize on a man's misfortune. We never mentioned it." Lyndon's comment sent reporters scrambling for phones, caused many an eyebrow...
...answer to a question after the speech in the Lowell House Junior Common Room, Lamont called the Gulf of Tonkin incident "one of the most improbable tales I've heard in several years." He charged that the affair was really "just a frameup by the military designed to make the United States more involved in Vietnam...
...migration swelled, so did the problems. What was once a cozy private affair, supervised to the last detail by supercautious parents, became en masse a complicated business. Where, for instance, should au pairs eat their meals? With the family, as a half daughter, or in the kitchen, as a half maid? May they entertain friends at home once their work is finished, or see them only on days off? Since municipal and government agencies had no jurisdiction over such volunteer workers, perplexed housewives fell back on their own instincts, often with disastrous results...
Beneath the glitter of national publicity, the New York senatorial race has become a bitter affair--especially bitter for the incumbent, Kenneth B. Keating...