Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loosening of many moral and social restraints on all kinds of behavior in an increasingly lax society; the decline of tradition and the breakdown of the family; the mobility of American life that so often turns into rootlessness; the U.S. frontier culture of violence and its still lingering love affair with guns?the litany can go on and on. But finally the problem of why the U.S. has so many kooks, and the lack of any final answer, may come down to a dilemma inherent in freedom. The Bill of Rights and the U.S. promise of "liberty for all," habeas...
...will emerge from the thicket of charge and countercharge that has surrounded it for so long. There are several reasons why escape appears unlikely. First, the long report of the Hartman Review Committee suffers from ambiguity and information gaps that will prevent the faculty from resolving the affair without another in-depth review. Secondly, broad questions of what due process and academic freedom mean in practical application requires University-level study and definition and not merely an ad hoc faculty decision on Hartman's charges. Finally, a clean break with a muddy past appears unlikely while long-standing animosities between...
Resolution of the Hartman affair by the GSD will be further impeded by the overwhelming collection of abstract and quasi-legal issues that are involved. If the faculty attempts to skirt these issues it would leave ground for fundamental challenge. But it could find itself in a hopeless debate if, for example, it tries to carve out the meaning and correct application of academic freedom. Such questions demand University-level study and definition, not ad hoc formulations by individual faculties...
...contribution to Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign. The donor: Ruth Farkas, member of a wealthy New York department store family, who became Ambassador to Luxembourg after giving the money. Wyman conceded that he had been questioned by a Watergate grand jury about the Farkas affair, but refused to discuss the matter during the campaign. Wyman apparently remains in some danger of indictment, a possibility that President Ford boldly decided to ignore in choosing to campaign...
...shoulders. On the way to his dead mistress's funeral, he silently mouths a confession in the back seat of a car. A police inspector confides to him that the murder may never be solved. With mounting distress, Charles tells his wife (Stçphane Audran) about his affair and the killing. She considers these revelations and is understanding. He tells his friend François, who is forgiving too. "No one," François explains, "is guilty of what happens in a nightmare." After all this, Charles can turn only to the police. It would not be fair...