Word: affair
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...French language. Anouilh did, however, work from the play of Sophocles, though the result can in no wise be called a translation. In fact, Anouilh's play contains only one line that is an exact rendering from Sophocles. Anouilh preserved the actual story intact, but subjected the entire affair to a deep and thorough rethinking. If he was unable to equal the lofty grandeur of the original, he nonetheless did create one of the supreme French plays of our century...
...code that provides explicit guidelines for members' behavior-and to do it soon. "Such a code is mandatory," says Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. "We all suffered." Predicts perennial Watchdog John Williams of Delaware: "We'll do it before we go home." Many Senators realize that the Dodd affair and other cases have cast a moral smogbank over Capitol Hill. Utah's Wallace Bennett, an austere Mormon, received a letter from a constituent 1,800 miles away, saying: "We can smell you clear out here...
...affair began four months ago, when Chapman Pincher, defense correspondent for the Daily Express, published an article claiming that thousands of cables sent out of England by private citizens were regularly being made available to the security authorities for scrutiny. No sooner had the story appeared than Wilson accused the Express of ignoring two "D Notices"-government memorandums requesting newspapers not to publish specific items of secret information in the interests of national security. Nonsense, replied Express Editor Derek Marks, there was no D Notice involved. Every paper on Fleet Street echoed his scorn...
...ships aboard a yacht owned by a rich and beautiful woman who has but one aim in life: to find a sailor from Gibraltar, who she feels was the love of her life. As she remembers him, he was no ordinary navvy: at 20, when they had their stormy affair, he was fleeing French law for "the murder of the American ballbearings king, Nelson Nelson." Though she has had no word of him in years, her yacht, with its crew of seven, seeks him in ports on the seven seas without a scintilla of rational evidence...
...Thursday Afternoon Lecture Series: Albert V. Baez, Division of Science Teaching, Department for the Advancement of Science, UNESCO, on "My Love Affair with UNESCO." Emerson Hall...