Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Westchester home, the couple gambol in the percales, certain that they are in an endless summer. But a chill of guilt becomes pervasive when she returns to Radcliffe. The parents discover the diaphragm she has "forgotten" to hide, and the assault of letters and threats begins. To Neil, the affair suddenly becomes serious but not desperate; to Brenda, it is desperate but not serious. The lovers collect their severance pay-Brenda the suffocating devotion of her parents, Neil an ineradicable bitterness...
SPITTING IMAGE. Sam Waterston and Walter McGinn play a homosexual couple who, to the dismay of the Establishment, have a baby. Though the play is basically a one-joke affair, and has the somewhat inflated air of a short story masquerading as a novel, it is often amusing...
Perelman named his actor Basil Woolwine. He could just as well have called him Anthony Newley. In the latest case of lifelessness imitating artlessness, Newley continues his long love affair with Newley. Can Heironymus Merlcin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? "is a real ego trip," says the Director-Writer-Star. But it is less a trip than a misfired space shot blasting $1,250,000 to ashes...
...LOOK Board of Regents first flexed its conservative muscles last November, during the Cleaver affair. In the wake of the '66 Berkeley riots, the Regents had set up special student-faculty committees to design and select new courses. Last fall, the Berkeley committee came up with a number of new courses--including one on U.S. racism. The lecturer was to be Eldridge Cleaver, who was then a U.S. resident and available for such duties...
...COME a long way in a very short time. Only a few years ago the country's problems were safely cooped up in Mississippi and Alabama, and the Federal government was on our side. The Movement was a good-hearted affair with plenty of idealism and not too much analysis. Its politics were still those of the fifties: everyone pretty much agreed with everyone else about most everything, and young people had to go South to find things that were obviously wrong...