Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meet should be close since the scoring system (only first places count) makes each event an all-or-nothing affair. And with this type of scoring, it is possible that the meet could end in a tie, as the 8-8 final score of the Cornell-Penn/Oxford-Cambridge match proves...
Leftist moods have traditionally given rise to expressions of solidarity with working people on the parts of students and intellectuals. But these feelings were not quite the same in 1969 (or later) as they had been before. Throughout its short life, the love affair of the 1960's and '70's between left-leaning students and workers was much more of a love/hate relationship than anything else...
...affair seems to be over now, but it is worth looking at again because so many of the changes it brought about and so many of the impulses involved were, at root, sound. The relationship is also worth reexamining because in the end, the rise of student radicalism seems to have created a larger gap than ever between students and working people. The same workers whom the students had counted on for support had moved rightward politically -- in part as a reaction to the student movement itself...
...wouldn't mind Agnew as President. I also probably wouldn't mind if Nixon were impeached....The Watergate affair will probably drag on, with a decline of confidence in the Administration and with a guerrilla war between Congress and the Administration....Watergate is oddly different from other scandals in the past. There is little evidence of venality....The point, which is really a question, is whether our culture sustains any shared values too sacred to be compromised -- any shared standards of behavior, violations of which simply will not be tolerated...
...city of Omaha wholeheartedly embraced this 27th College World Series. The Chamber of Commerce has enthusiastically backed the affair and local businesses have taken an active role in supporting the eight college teams. Each team is sponsored by one or more local businesses which house, feed, entertain, and encourage that team for the duration of its sojourn in the city...