Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enough lamenting over such an anti-climactic affair, whadddyasay we move to the college ranks...
Japanese honor may be partially satisfied, but some Italians see the affair as an assault on their traditional humanism. Writing in Milan's Corriere della Sera, Essayist Luigi Compagnone jestingly defended the Cat and the Fox as "two small-time cheats, emeritus champions of the art of getting by," a talent that he says is attributed to the people of southern Italy. Japan, he added, is "a superindustrialized country, where the myths of superproduction have inserted themselves in the daily reality to the point of spasm. It does not know or accept anything but the frightening morality of integral efficiency...
...take a study break tonight and sample the atmosphere at Watson Rink. If you miss this Harvard-St. Lawrence affair, you might not get a chance to see another one until your son's Bar Mitzvah...
...idols, Icelandic Painter Erro, the late Bertrand Russell and the late Kung Fu movie star Bruce Lee. All in all, Polanski was pleased: "There's a certain thrill to seeing my work on a page. It's the thrill of novelty, like having a new affair...
Whatever the motivation, the Times's allegations struck some sympathetic chords. Mary Ellis Carlton, veteran urban-affairs reporter for the I. PT, agreed that the paper has suppressed many of her reports about city problems; last week she resigned. Some editors at other California papers found the whole affair at least as interesting as dog bites dog, if not man bites dog. Said Sacramento Bee (and former Los Angeles Times) Managing Editor Frank McCulloch: "It's the first indication that we're going to break out of the gentlemen's club and rap each other...