Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast, Coppolino turned out to be a first-rate courtroom performer. In two hours on the stand, he bolstered his case with cool, quiet testimony that Keuper could not shake. Coppolino admitted his affair with Mrs. Farber, but insisted that he was a conscientious physician to Farber on the day he died-giving him proper treatment for a sudden heart ailment, pleading in vain that he go to a hospital. Neatly dressed in a dark suit, as professional in his manner as a medical-school lecturer, Coppolino even turned to the jury to give an onomatopoetic description of how irregular...
...What gives the letters an extra resonance is the frequency with which life prefigures art. Joyce's brief and platonic affair with a young Swiss woman, Martha Fleischmann, is replayed in some detail in the Bloom-Gerty McDowell episode in Ulysses. The few letters from Joyce's rakehell father have all the style and fresh idiom of Simon Dedalus in the book. And Molly Bloom's long, affirmative soliloquy comes to life in the letters of his wife, Nora-artless, rambling and totally innocent of punctuation, syntax or correct spelling...
...room after hours when it is clear that there was no intention of signing her in, Monro says, "but ruddy violations of this nature only come before the Board two or three times a year, and usually they are the result of a boozy party--a generally raunchy, unattractive affair...
Evans Harrington, a novelist and member of the English department, taught at Ole Miss throughout the Meredith affair. Harrington is one of the leaders of the Ole Miss chapter of the Association of American University Professors, which has fought a series of battles for academic freedom for the last four years. Just this summer, the AAUP got the courts to throw out the clause of the Mississippi loyalty oath which requires teachers in state schools to list all the organizations they have belonged to or contributed to in the last five years. The court case was surprisingly simple...
Ebert himself asked the school's student-faculty committee to arrange the affair, in order to discuss a controversial report on revamping the curriculum. He said the report, which is now before the faculty, is simply "one suggestion" for change, But he spoke in favor of all of its recommendations, and he indicated that he thinks the faculty will approve them or similar changes...