Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Venetian Affair, Maclnnes...
...TIME can be very timely at times. Not two days previous to receiving the Feb. 7 issue, I searched the back of my An Affair to Remember album in vain for information on the fascinatingly beautiful voice listed only as "soprano-Marnie Nixon." The big question then became "Who is Marnie Nixon?" Thank you for not letting such a voice go unsung...
Back and forth the messages crackled, after U.S. coastguardmen boarded Lambda 8 and three other Cuban fishing boats lying H miles off the Dry Tortugas Islands, west of Key West. The boats were clearly violating the U.S. three-mile territorial limit. Ordinarily, it would be a trivial affair, worth merely a warning before sending the fishermen on their way. But it ballooned rapidly into a crisis...
...sports-writer of forty, is challenged by the youth's self-as-surance and invites the lad to spend the day on a boat with him and his handsome wife. The boy accepts and the three set to sea. With him the boy brings a knife--a phallic, contractile affair. "I'm a hiker," he explains. "I use it to cut through things." In time the knife comes to represent masculinity and the balance of strength on the boat...
...perhaps the saddest part of the whole affair is the students' passive acceptance of the faculty fiat. There will be no student uproar, just as there was none last spring when the faculty blithely vetoed an overwhelming student vote asking for parietal hours...