Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Walzer, public meetings such as the Goldberg affair, were not intellectual experiences, but they were not worthless either. "The meeting caused many students to reevaluate our Administration's policies," Walzer, who participated in the Goldberg confrontation, said. However, the smaller meetings give politicians a chance to be plausible, and they also give students the impression that they are being let in on state secrets, he said. "In formal meetings there are formal ways of being impolite, but when an official is 'letting his hair down' it is virtually impossible to be critical," he said. To ensure that politicians...
Brown called this the most "disgusting" aspect of the whole affair...
Dalton said before the vote that he thought Licht had tried to "over-glamorize the Maddox affair into a controversy. It isn't even an issue," he said...
Nasser, who brought all these woes upon himself as the chief instigator of the whole Yemen affair, must face the fact that the war's cost-about $500,000 a day at its peak-is a heavy burden to the Egyptian economy. For all his Russian-made tanks and Ilyushin light bombers, Nasser cannot promise a quick rout of either the anti-Sallal rebels or the sandal-clad royalist guerrillas in the hills. He has resumed air attacks not only on the royalist redoubts but also on border towns in Saudi Arabia, which he claims serve as supply depots...
...Scopes, who was accused of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee schools, is cited as a cultural showdown. The event pitted fundamentalists against religious skeptics, conservatives against radicals, fear of change against freedom of thought. According to the man who was at the center of the affair, it was even more than that. In this quietly amused memoir, John T. Scopes recalls it all as a hell...