Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Webb wrote a wistful ballad about the affair called By the Time I Get to Phoenix. As recorded by Glen Campbell, it rose medium-high in the bestseller charts and won Campbell a Grammy award for the best male vocal performance of 1967. Meantime, Webb and a friend were planning a movie about a balloon trip. The only part of the venture that got off the ground was Webb's title song. It was recorded by The 5th Dimension, and it soared high in the charts, sold 875,000 copies and won some more Grammies. Trans World Airlines bought...
Whatever his ultimate commencement status, Saturday night marked the peak of Levin's undergraduate career: the fruition of a long love affair with Mozart's music accorded a spontaneous standing ovation by the audience. And that is something very few soloists beside the Archbishop of Canterbury can count as part of their memories of Cambridge. One only hopes that circumstances do not abort Levin's promise even earlier than that they did that of Mozart...
Army dropped a 3-2 decision to Dartmouth Saturday in an 18-inning affair at West Point to give Harvard the title. Paced by pitcher Ray Peters' seven straight wins, the Crimson finished 8-1 in the League. Their only loss was to the Cadets, who are now 6-2 with one game remaining...
...affair thrives, despite burlesqued escapes from detection, and Martha evolves a plan to drown Dreyer, inherit his millions and marry Franz. "My dining room, my earrings, my silver, my Franz," she muses. Martha, in fact, is so greedy that she aborts the murder plot at the last moment because her husband remarks that he is about to fatten his estate with $100,000 from the sale of a patent for mechanical mannequins. The appearance of these "automanne-quins" raises the question of who is real and who is not-one of those Nabokovian diversions that in later novels are more...
...that the syndicated coverage from Morningside Heights systematically and covertly presented an Establishment view or one which was benevolently indulgent of the insurgents. The result distorts or obliterates the real issues. What is involved, clearly, is neither haphazard hysteria nor pre-summer larks. Your reporting gives to the entire affair an ideology, a history, and what is more important, a subtle analytic respectability...