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Word: affair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Honora, quirky and self-willed as ever, admittedly comes close to being the central figure in this, the author's second novel; and Moses and Coverley, now mature and married, appear from time to time, usually under increasingly desperate circumstances. But most of The Wapshot Scandal is about an affair between Melissa--a Wapshot only because she married Moses--and a grocery boy named Emile. The reader, like both characters, will probably find it a tiring relationship...

Author: By Martin S. Levine, | Title: 'The Wapshot Scandal': A View Of a Heaven Marked With Call | 3/19/1964 | See Source »

...girls are apparently responding enthusiastically to the upcoming Master's Ball, a black tie affair being given (gratis) by Samuel E. Thorne, Master of South House. Chairman Nancy D. Elsenpeter '66 estimates that half of South House has already invited dates, and in Briggs Hall alone, 15-20 girls are sewing themselves long gowns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffies Try It Again, Plan Master's Ball | 3/17/1964 | See Source »

...most activity save bathing and eroticism. It soon became clear that Ester's masturbation (long enough in the American version) is a poor substitute for the Lesbian feelings she has for Anna. Anna is not free from reciprocal impulses, but her hate finally triumphs over love in a heterosexual affair with a strange waiter. She taunts her sister with stories about her lover and, in the film's climax, flings open the door behind which she knows Ester is hiding. Cruelly, Anna continues her bed play to torture her watching sister...

Author: By Paul Williams, | Title: The Silence | 3/17/1964 | See Source »

...girls are apparently responding enthusiastically to the upcoming Master's Ball, a black tie affair being given (gratis) by Samuel E. Thorne, Master of South House. Chairman Nancy D. Elsenpeter '66 estimates that half of South House has already invited dates, and in Briggs Hall alone, 15-20 girls are sewing themselves long gowns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cliffies Try It Again, Plan Master's Ball | 3/16/1964 | See Source »

...number "This Plum Is Too Ripe," which has few words and punctuates its gripes with "Sorry." And the wall is built a new (this time it is a wall of bricks and not of fancy) while the boy and the girl turn to the "real" world, she to an affair and he to the open road...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Fantasticks | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

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