Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the 1964 campaign, Johnson had his aide Bill Moyers ask the FBI for checks on Republican Candidate Barry Goldwater's Senate staff. Hoover's men ran name checks on 15 of them, producing derogatory information on two (a traffic violation on one and a love affair on another). Johnson asked for similar checks on at least seven journalists who had displeased him. They included NBC's David Brinkley, Columnist JOseph Kraft, Associated Press's Peter Arnett, the Chicago Daily News' Peter Lisagor and LIFE'S Richard Stolley (now managing editor of PEOPLE). L.B.J...
...role of the Communists in the coup. In Lisbon's Constituent Assembly last week, moderate party delegates charged that the Communists had actually plotted the revolt, but then had stood aside as it became evident that the uprising would fail. Communists nevertheless denied complicity in the affair. "It is clear that my party disapproves of the happenings as they turned out," said Communist Party Spokesman Carlos Brito-to hoots of laughter in the Assembly. Socialist Leader Mario Scares demanded that...
...Woody Allen's success as a playwright and as an actor is that he understands so well the real nature of neurotics. Being a neurotic is a life-long affair with its own set of patterns and institutions--unhappy love relationships, psychoanalysis, various combinations of sedatives and stimulants, an acute sensitivity to the sources of one's own pain, and a vivid fantasy life. In between, sometimes in the very midst of periods of depression, the neurotic is capable of remarkable insight into his behavior and its motivation, and yet feels himself entirely incapable of change...
...keeping House, but I want a Housekeeper. What fine Affair it would be if We could flit across the Atlantic as they say the Angles do from Planet to Planet. I would dart the Penn Hills and bring you over on my Wings. But alass We must keep house separately from some time...
...Karnow's statement just shows how hard it is to get people to agree on what Peretz is doing. Sanford denies Karnow's attribution as "bullshit." Karnow, who is sour about the affair, isn't surprised by Sanford's denial and says that since Sanford is still working for Peretz he can't be critical of Peretz. But Sanford defends Peretz because, he says, Peretz didn't have the reflexive reaction to Mayaguez that Karnow had, that Peretz thought it would be premature to write about it. And, finally, in the list of charges and countercharges, Peretz says that...