Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Venetian Affair, MacInnes...
...longest single game (7 hrs. 23 min.) and the longest doubleheader (9hrs. 52 min.) in history, both to the San Francisco Giant, before 57,037 supersatiated fans-biggest crowed of the 1964 season-at New York's Shea Stadium. The first game was a regulation nine-inning affair, and the Giants won 5-3. But the nightcap went 23 innings before Catcher Del Crandall, only able-bodied man on the Giant roster (except pitchers) who had not yet played, drove in the winning run with a pinch double to give San Francisco an 8-6 victory...
...most important of them women. These ladies included the Princess of Thurn and Taxis and the fabulous Lou AndreasSalome, who was his elder by 14 years and who deeply impressed-besides the poet-Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud. His love for Lou Andreas was a lifelong though mostly distant affair, interrupted briefly, as Biographer von Salis dryly observes, by his marriage to Clara Westhof. In an age that is congesting toward total togetherness, when even a Wordsworth can only wander lonely as a crowd, the solitary figure of Rilke commands something somewhere between awe and irritation. He sought Weltinnenraum-literally...
...ranging from one on Outer Limits ("I played a beige monster") to a brilliant characterization of a bereaved mother on East Side, West Side. Next fall she will have her first Broadway lead, in a new play called Wedding Band by Negro Playwright Alice Childress-about an interracial love affair...
...flourishes in Latin America. Especially in Mexico, writers struggle to establish an orthodox fable of the Revolution. It did not happen once and for all between the death of Porfirio Díaz in 1915 and the uneasy truce of church and state in 1925; it is a continuous affair, its unfinished business exciting in 1964. The basic facts of national history are still passionately argued...