Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin in Washington, but he managed to cover his departure with a typical, though perhaps inevitable, Kissinger feint; he spent the evening at a glittering dinner party hosted by Huang Chen, the head of China's liaison office in Washington. That affair had been planned as a send-off for Kissingers scheduled trip to Peking early this week; actually, he had already postponed that journey for at least several day's in favor of the emergency mission to Moscow...
...literature breaks down into categories, usually determined by age, sometimes by common experience. For example, Emerson and Whittier are grouped together as "Elder Statesmen," Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman take "a philosophical view of the whole affair," while James, Twain, Howells, and Adams are the "Malingerers." Within these categories Aaron analyzes particular responses and finds that, in spite of the collective failure to come to grips with the War, the conflict was a disturbing and compelling experience for each. Especially to men like Twain and Howells, the War marked the turning point in their own American experience--each went through...
...scandalous treatment of the Shockley affair raises serious questions about the 'moral responsibility' of the SDS. The SDS has once again demonstrated the provinciality of their views, the intolerance and inflexibility of their dogma, and the insecurity of their political stance which makes them unable to tolerate any positions differing from their...
...press conference the day after the settlement, Richardson indicated that President Nixon had known more about the affair than he had let on. In his public statements, the President had said that he could vouch for Agnew's conduct after becoming Vice President. But Richardson said that Nixon early on had been told about the developing evidence that Agnew had received money while Vice President...
Powerful Showing. The opinion quoted Nixon's own words against him. Last May, before the existence of the tapes was known, the President declared: "Executive privilege will not be invoked as to any testimony concerning possible criminal conduct in the matters presently under investigation, including the Watergate affair and the alleged cover-up." Confidentiality, the court continued, had been destroyed by public discussion of the contents of the tapes. The court was doubtless alluding to H.R. Haldeman's mention of them in his appearance before the Senate Watergate committee. Finally, said the court, claims for Executive privilege fail...