Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...existentialism, a philosophical air-raid shelter that he erected for Europe's disillusioned intellectuals after World War II, that seems rather outdated today. It is essentially a conjuring trick-a preachment of faith without belief, of free will to no purpose. "Atheism is a cruel and long-range affair," Sartre has said. Always faithful in this affair, never publicly flirting with hope or grace (as did his fellow existentialist and fellow Nobel winner Albert Camus), Sartre takes atheism to its grim limits. Man as he sees him is alone in an absurd and meaningless universe...
...Monsieur, permit me to offer you my hand so that I may congratulate you and your men on your job. C'était formidable.'" Replied Lavalette: "Man cher, I accept your congratulations, and I extend you my own. Thanks to you, I have accomplished the most beautiful affair that one could imagine...
...gradually, Maria grew depressed because Speranza refused to leave his wife and live with her. Moreover, Mamma Furnari was becoming suspicious of the high grades in geography and troubled by a warning from a gossipy neighbor. Mamma and Maria had it out, and when the girl confessed her affair, she had to repeat it all to her father, Gaetano Furnari, 40, who jumped up from the dining-room table and ordered Maria to follow him. Hiring a car and muttering imprecations, Furnari drove to Catania. Dragging Maria behind him, he burst into a classroom where Speranza and two other professors...
...events in the Soviet Union, Britain and Communist China, following news of the Jenkins affair in rapid succession, seemed to overshadow it and to highlight the sorts of crises that would ordinarily figure to favor an incumbent President during an election year...
...celebration of the G.D.R. turned out to be a Grade B production: the visiting Communist dignitaries were all second-stringers. Except for the first public showing of four Soviet medium-range missiles, the five-hour parade in East Berlin's Marx-Engels Square was a dreary, neo-Nazi affair of goose-stepping soldiers and sullen workers, clearly more interested in their weary feet than in the oversized pictures of Communist leaders that they dutifully bore past the reviewing stand...