Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent article, "Watergate: A Skeptical View," radical scholar Noam Chomsky convincingly argues that Watergate is one of Nixon's lesser crimes. The affair, he maintains, has attracted extraordinary attention only because its victims were members of the powerful liberal establishment...
...recent article, "Watergate: A Skeptical View," radical scholar Noam Chomsky convincingly argues that Watergate is one of Nixon's lesser crimes. The affair, he maintains, has attracted extraordinary attention only because its victims were members of the powerful liberal establishment...
...nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, he snidely wired the White House: "I should like to congratulate you for the nomination. However, I have reason to believe the organization that has nominated you merely wishes you to hear of the nomination so that you can recover from the Watergate affair. My reason for holding this view is that it is very discouraging for real peacemakers in the world to hear of your nomination ... I am led to the conclusion that your nominators were not serious in their choice...
...English teacher in the Middle East whose wife had remained behind in England. When one of his Arab students left for a trip to England, the teacher suggested that the young man look up his wife while he was there. The student did, and proceeded to have an affair with the lonely woman. On returning home for a visit, the Englishman asked his wife if the Arab had paid a call. Reacting guiltily, the wife denied having met the student -by snapping her head upward and clicking her tongue...
Elsewhere Greene has pointed out what Charley Fortnum eventually demonstrates with his life, that the appropriate response to corruption is not cynicism but innocence. Not since The End of the Affair ("Dear God, you know I want your pain, but I don't want it now"), however, has Greene so baldly confronted the problem of God and evil, or the purpose, if any, of the horrors that God seems to visit alike upon those condemned to believe and those condemned to thirst after faith. "Free will was the excuse for everything," says Léon, the priest turned revolutionary...