Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCormack's most palpable failure so far this session came in his handling of the Adam Clayton Powell affair. Deeply averse to any break with precedent, he unsuccessfully resisted both the Democratic-caucus move to strip Powell of his committee chairmanship, and the full House action to take away his seat pending a formal investigation. McCormack's stand particularly irritated young, liberal Congressmen, who have been increasingly unhappy about the Speaker's intractably traditionalist position. What McCormack failed to consider was that many a colleague was under heavy pressure from constituents to chastise the flamboyant Negro Congressman...
...Deadly Affair. Novelist John le Carre has set himself up as the spycho-analyst of the cold war. In The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, which was made into the most intelligent suspense movie of 1965, he candled the head of an aging agent and found all the sickness of the century inside. In Call for the Dead, an early le Carre thriller that has now been made into an entertaining but less original film, he calls in another sad old spy to define the meaning of treason in our time...
...FAMILY AFFAIR (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). In this episode, Bill Davis' priceless butler, French, is unexpectedly called away and his brother Nigel (John Williams) offers to fill in as chief cook, bottlewasher and lion tamer in the motherless household of a boy and two girls-all of which leads to complications, especially when a group fishing trip is in the offing...
Blau and Irving had tried too hard with too little. Their company (including their own wives) was unseasoned, their stage-an apron affair-was too difficult, and their repertory (Brecht, Sartre, Lorca) too demanding. By last week, with all of their efforts widely panned, Blau resigned, wrote the center's trustees: "The climate is no longer right for me to do what I came to do. Perhaps my going will clear the atmosphere so the theater may move freshly in whatever course of action it must take now." Irving will stay on as sole director at least until...
...human dignities that are evident in reading a newspaper but rather in duller things, that prompts us to submit the kernel of comment which was brought to mind by a view in print of the exhibition of certain young ladies aggressively antagonizing and hostile to their opponents in the affair who are icky...