Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from my vein to a bag out of my sight. Lying on my back. I could view the Mem Hall stained glass windows in all their exquisite detail, a treat that students gazing down at blue exam books rarely enjoy. Dante, Chaucer and Blake smiled benignly upon the whole affair...
Steingut denies that the effort to establish a state bank was prompted by the UDC affair. He prefers to stress that such an institution would keep money deposited in the state from being invested in development elsewhere, and serve as a yardstick to measure the performance of private banks in meeting community needs. The profits that the bank generates could possibly be channeled to the state treasury and used to defray governmental costs...
...dream of and since this movie is a kind of folk tale, W.W. is able to make good on his promise. Before that happens, there are adventures on the road, including some comical chasing around in cars, an inventive assault on a drive-in bank, and a testy love affair between W.W. and the group's lead singer (Conny Van Dyke). There is also a reasonably subtle examination of a shifting relationship between band and interloper...
...servants. Dorine is the only truly unaffected character in the play, outside society and unconcerned with formalities. Using every inch of Philip Drysdale's excellent set, curled in an oak-panelled corner of Adams House dining room. Crasnick dashes around the stage, eavesdropping on conversations, stage-managing a love affair, and rallying forces against the hypocrisy she so intuitively sees through. Crasnick's Dorine has a delightful charm and spontaneity that not only is enchanting in itself, but also acts as a catalyst in bringing other characters to life...
That fury of idealism, those passions seem to be missing from American political life today. We as a country are lucky, for we still have options, just as Washington, Adams, and Jefferson had options. They were wealthy men who might have ducked the affair. But they moved to the only side they felt they could move to; the side of the persecuted. They chose to stand against the powerful, the rich and the unjust...