Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final will be an all-Leverett affair with Charles Delony, last year's runner-up, fighting Ralph Dittman. Delony registered the day's only knockout yesterday when he downed Dieter Wahl of Kirkland House with a right cross in the second round...
...stage, making himself disagreeable to the other characters and to us. Feydeau devoted at least several tablespoons of wit to the part, and Claflin ought to do better. Wilkinson's failure is difficult to explain. Physically he is suited to the part of an aging man of science and affair who still has an eye for the chorines. Unfortunately he is always a step or so behind the action, looking on but stepping aside to let the real characters go by. Miss Moore is no comedian...
...Measure for Measure and they won't put you in garden party spirits. (Neither will the numerous jokes that only a Shakespearean scholar can chortle over, nor the soliloquies, especially if you are secretly ambivalent about soliloquies.) But Measure for Measure isn't a daisies, quick laughter, jasmine tea affair. It's menacing. Daniel Seltzer's production wasn't menacing enough. We didn't feel oppressed as Angelo, Claudio, the studs, even Isabel fell under the repressive law. So the transformation at the end of the play from life under law to life under grace wasn't a wonder. More...
...Evil Effects." Criticism of CIA's financial involvement-however innocuous it may have been-came from every corner of the world. Dan Mclntosh, president of the Berkeley student body, cried that as a result of the N.S.A. affair, "the credibility of U.S. students abroad is greatly damaged." Robert A. Dahl, president of the American Political Science Association, said "there are bound to be evil effects" from CIA's money funnel. Even George Meany, whose A.F.L.-C.I.O. international affiliates had long been richly endowed by the espionage agency's foundations, self-right-eously proclaimed his "natural ingrained opposition...
...days--had to stand before television lights and cameras and a labyrinth of microphones, and tell the nation that an organization to which he was committed had been perpetrating a grandiose, 15-year lie. Today, this congenial -- if somewhat idealistic -- young man is talking about the opportunity the whole affair may have provided for a new era in national student involvement...