Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There's not enough kindness in the world," whimpers the chunky lesbian, knocking back the booze. The worn insight is typical of the maundering dialogue in The Killing of Sister George, an autopsy of a homosexual affair. The heroine (Beryl Reid) is an actress with a single role: Sister George, a kindly, cuddly nurse on a British soap opera. Offscreen, she drops the smarmy smile and becomes an abrading machine running on alcohol and programmed for self-destruction...
...guys in ROTC if the draft weren't on their backs. If I were now in the army, I would still find Hoffmann's hands-off attitude obscene, because I and my comrades would be forced to kill and be killed while Mr. Hoffmann washed his hands of the affair. Only a member of the elite can afford to take that attitude. Many of us don't care to join that sort of elite while our (largely working class) brothers are shipped to Vietnam...
Moral indignation against the war in Vietnam is so justified that when, a year ago, hundreds of students violated a University rule in their demonstration against Dow, many professors did all they could to put that incident into its context and to prevent excessive punishment. Moreover, the Dow affair had largely resulted from, and was pointing to, the inadequacy of channels in which students and professors together could discuss issues of public policy involving the University. But I do not believe that the sit-in of last Thursday, which led to the cancellation of the Faculty meeting, can be defended...
...Thomas Crown Affair--In which Norman Jewison, having tackled a variety of earth-shaking themes, takes a vacation. At the PARAMOUNT, Washington St., Boston...
Generalizing on the basis of last week's affair is somewhat dangerous for it was exceptional in a number of ways--mainly the poor organization and size...