Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...orchestras really want to quit. Because of union-backed demands, the big five already are operating 52 weeks out of the year. At first glance, it might seem that a longer season would automatically mean more income. But since every concert by every orchestra is a deficit affair, more concerts mean a larger deficit. Los Angeles has expanded its annual schedule from 37 weeks to 46 in the past three years, and the musicians are pushing hard for 52. "Sure, the schedule is murderous," says A.P.M. President Herman Kenin. "But the goal is not 52 weeks but 52 checks...
...obtain a text of the resolution, which made Page One of the morning Globe. It also marked the last time I was able to get past Dean Ford's secretary with a question. Dean Ford undoubtedly felt that I was ill serving Harvard with my handling of the affair. One must of course question whether serving the University administration or the dean of the faculty is necessarily synonymous with serving Harvard. But there is also the deeper question of whether a reporter should stop to ask how well his is serving Harvard. University officials, steeped in the traditional game...
...first duty of the university in this affair is--as it has seemed to me all along that it must be-to protect itself against the disruptive effects of the war, and if we include the students in question (and how can we not include them?) as fully cherished members of the university community, then it follows that our duty is also to protect them in their university careers from these same effects. We do not do this, we do not fulfill this elementary obligation, by these dismissals and severance...
...PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9:30 p.m.).** Alan Bates stars as Richard Wagner in The Siegfried Idyll, an account of Wagner's love affair with the wife of his best friend, Conductor Hans...
...been named a co-conspirator -but was never tried-in a securities-law violation case along with Louis Wolfson. Moreover, the Parvin Foundation derived its income from Albert Parvin's ties with Las Vegas gambling operations. This raised a question similar to the central issue of the Fortas affair: Should a Supreme Court Justice be judged by the company he keeps? Adding to the intrigue was the fact that until last week the Parvin Foundation retained Carolyn Agger-Abe Fortas' wife and a top Washington lawyer-as its tax consultant...