Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...human rather than mythological character and psychology, set the stage for the bel canto style. But beside Monteverdi's hopped-up humans, his gods look like so many bank clerks. Poppea's action centers on the infatuation of the Roman Emperor Nero with his mistress, Poppea, an affair held in dubious check by Nero's Stoic mentor Seneca. Poppea, slinkily played in Dallas by Patrice Munsel in a white gown slit to the hip, finally turns Nero's golden-curled head, and he orders Seneca to commit suicide. Meanwhile, Nero's wife Octavia and Poppea...
...Tibor de Nagy Gallery, which claims he violated a contract to join monolithic Marlborough's stable of 52 artists. For some reason, the beneficiaries of the party were neither painters nor sculptors, but rather the Musicians Emergency Fund. They were left far from broke by the baroque affair. Sales of tickets and catalogues for the opening night of the show, a tribute to the late dealer Curt Valentin, netted a tidy 12,000. This week recuperated New Yorkers could pay $1 and return for an unjostled look...
Charley's wife is, like the narrator, a nothing, and not surprisingly the two nothings mate. As the affair continues, it becomes increasingly important to the two participants to see Charley fail-in his career as an architect and in his quest for citizenship. When Charley passes his citizenship test, his wife runs away with a eunuch. Her desertion drives her narrator-lover into madness...
...started in August, after Diem raided the Buddhist pagodas. Lieut. General Tran Van Don, then acting chief of the Joint General Staff, got word that a coup seemed imminent, and felt (as he now explains it) that the moment was not right. He feared that whoever was planning the affair might not be able to control things, that the Communist Viet Cong might move in on it and take over Saigon. So Don supported Diem's imposition of martial law, and the August coup never surfaced...
Newspapers carrying stories about the Harvard sex scandal are now lining garbage cans throughout the country, and soon the affair will slip quietly from the public consciousness. But the discussion engendered in the CRIMSON and elsewhere has revealed an important deficiency in University policy on the sexual problems and social development of the average Harvard student...