Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Venetian Affair, Maclnnes...
...chronologically-until occasionally whole poems are free of howlers. Still the reader finds Melville awkward and even embarrassed in the presence of poetry, as if poetry were attended by a duenna and not a muse. His enormously long philosophical poem Clarel, which is excerpted here, is a sober, jointy affair in which pilgrims clatter painfully about the Holy Land thirsting after truth amid the waterless cantos...
...Venetian Affair, Maclnnes...
...make a film of Somerset Maugham's 1937 novel Theatre was to risk anachronism, and to make it in French ought to have guaranteed disaster. What could be done to enhance the hackneyed backstage tale of a London actress who gambles her good name and marriage in an affair with a Casanova not much older than her teen...
...would be most fruitful for Americans to argue is what the U.S. reaction to Khrushchev's death should be. Should the message of condolences be warm or formal? Much more important, should we adopt an activist policy of profiting from the Soviet disadvantage or stay aloof from the entire affair...