Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political decisions, it is a basic rejection of the importance of God himself if the church is to be inactive or silent." The Hebrew prophets as well as the New Testament, believes Blake, give grounds for church involvement. "The gospel is no longer being misunderstood as simply a spiritual affair. The church cannot be merely interested in the salvation of souls. It must be interested in the salvation of men, both souls and bodies...
...Vegas for $25,000 a week, turned out two bestselling comedy albums, and lent his owlish visage to several advertisements ranging from Smirnoff's vodka to Foster Grant sunglasses. Now he is completing a new nightclub act as well as a play about "a happily neurotic love affair." This summer he plans to begin work on Take the Money and Run, a new film he co-authored and will star in. Has success spoiled him? "I just fail with a better class of women now," sighs Woody, adding that Parker Bros, has bought the memoirs of his love life...
Inevitably, the Bristol Siddeley affair is expected to reach far beyond the balance sheets of any one company. Its settlement surely will affect the future of Britain's aviation industry and, if parliamentary critics have their way, the entire practice of defense-industry contracting...
...Salter, 40, is one of the exceptions. His model seems to be Alain Robbe-Grillet, who labors in his books to "construct a space and time purely mental, that of a dream or memory." Perhaps in tribute, Salter sets his third book in France. His subject is the love affair between Anne-Marie Costallat, an 18-year-old who looks like a child but eats like a dock hand, and young Phillip Dean, a Yale dropout who has been wandering through Europe with "that touch of indolence and occasional luxury that comes only from having real resources...
...affair is viewed, or rather voyeured, by an unnamed narrator. In the hazy New-Novel fashion, the exact locale is uncertain: it may be Autun, or it may be Auxerre. And the events described may have happened or they may have been invented. As the narrator puts it: "I see myself as an agent provocateur or a double agent, first on one side-that of truth-and then on the other...