Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to one gambler, Leverett House poker is "a family affair." Jock, who organized the game, went to Lechmere Sales last fall and bought a poker table. It is octagonal, covered in billiard-green felt. There is a small well in front of each player to hold his chips. The table cost $42, so Jock sold $6 shares to seven friends. Two percent of each evening's winnings are set aside for cards and cokes. There is a list of about 50 players and their phone numbers are tacked to the side of the table. Most of the players...
...three-month affair between the Crimson halfback and the pro football leagues began two days after the Yale game when a general scout representing the NFL Giants, Vikings, Eagles, Bears, and Cardinals informally chattered to a large group, including Leo. In the middle of the next week came a more serious relationship. Coach John Yovicsin telephoned Leo that a scout from the San Francisco 49'ers was in the IAB projection room, watching films of him, Steve Diamond, and Dave Davis...
...force. Searching for Svetlana, they staked out the U.S. embassy, the airport, Rome's Cavalieri Hilton Hotel and the home of U.S. Ambassador G. Frederick Reinhardt. But Svetlana was nowhere to be found, and Washington, which was be ginning to have second thoughts about the whole affair, was keeping quiet. Finally, to spare the U.S. further embarrassment, Svetlana agreed to go to Switzerland instead and, four days after her Rome arrival, flew on to Geneva. Stalin's daughter, said the Swiss government, "has informed us that she needs a rest, and we have given her a tourist visa...
...unique and even sinister individual: a wounded and frightened young woman who wanted love but settled for power?with a husband she could dominate and a baby she could smother-mother. As Georgy, Lynn cunningly combined emotional empathy and ironical detachment. Says Sidney Lumet, who directed The Dead'y Affair, in which Lynn played a small role: "She can editorialize on a character without interrupting her portrayal of it." Acuity and control of this order, rare in one so young, intimate a talent for the highest comedy?the kind of loving laughter that hurts only what it heals...
...decision represents a further move in the direction of defining psychology only as "empirical" research, and is a forsaking of a productive Harvard tradition. It may seem puzzling that Harvard was unable to staff a professorship in what is in fact the largest specialty in psychology. The affair is tremendously complicated; but one thing is clear: the University has promoted the application of rigid academic standards even in a field where clinical experience and competence are obviously relevant...