Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a fizzle last week while the other showed signs of stubborn persistence and could go on for weeks. ∙ THE CONGO. The revolt against the Congolese government of General Joseph Mobutu by white mercenaries whom Mobutu himself had hired turned out to be largely a hit-and-run affair. Some 180 mercenaries of French Colonel "Bob" Denard's 6th Commandos, supported by Katanganese soldiers of the Congo army, moved into six towns, the most important being Bukavu and Kisangani. After several brief clashes with Mobutu's advancing regulars, the mercenaries last week commandeered 27 trucks and retreated...
...wrap it up by Christmas," said a federal officer, conceding that the "police action," as Lagos refers to its battle against the secessionists, may be a prolonged affair. Meanwhile Gowon's troops seemed to be making slow but steady progress in pushing the Ibos back into their own territory...
Deutscher, now 60, obviously remains caught up in his love affair with the bitch goddess of the left-international socialist revolution. And even though his love has not only been wed but ravaged by all sorts of adventurers, he still regards her as essentially pure, as innocent as she seemed when she first appeared before him in his youth. It is, he believes, her captors who are to blame. But in so often allowing emotion to obscure fact, myth to overwhelm reality, he only proves once more, alas, that no bourgeois gentleman can be as sentimental as a doctrinaire proletarian...
...Shure's intellectual approach worked the least was Chopin's Sonata in b flat minor, Op. 35, the one that contains the famous Marche funebre. One of the composer' masterpieces, it dates from that period of his life when he was still in the first heat of his love affair with George Sand. As well-made as it is, the work pouring of melody that is sapped of life by an attempt to bring out every element of compositional logic. After all, this music is French. As in the Schubert, Shure was at times heavy-handed, especially in the bass...
Last summer "some clever entrepreneur," as your newspaper persists in calling me, had some buttons made which read "I Go Here in the Winter." What began as a small, private affair was quickly magnified when the Crime chose to publicize it, and I found myself the living symbol of Harvard snobbery. Mother was so proud; Mr. Crooks, unfortunately...