Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Investigative reporter Egan has an interesting sidelight on the affair. He said Morrissey clandestinely tape recorded the transactions, that he has heard the tape although he does not know where "it is, and that the two men definitely indentified themselves as CIA agents...
...entire affair, even the means by which it was unearthed, is rife with people playing sneaky. The Crimson obtained the letters that revealed Gill's role and threw the fantastic case wide open because someone else must have played sneaky...
Playing sneaky is fun for little kids, but it loses its humor in what is supposedly an open and free environment. Gill comes out of the affair looking fairly quixotic, but the FBI and possibly the CIA appear simultaneously sinister and bumbling...
...attack; in West Los Angeles. After writing his first hit in 1923 (I Cried for You, Now It's Your Turn to Cry over Me), Freed teamed up with Composer Nacio Herb Brown and turned out a string of winners, including Singin' in the Rain, Our Love Affair and All I Do Is Dream of You. In 1939 he switched to producing and made more than 40 musicals including An American in Paris and Gigi, both Academy Award winners...
...Missy affair occupies only a small part of the book, however, and is really beside Elliott's point. He under took this reminiscence ostensibly be cause historians have so idealized Franklin and Eleanor. The cosmetic job has been such, Elliott says, that to the Roosevelt children the two emerge "as total strangers, not the father we loved and the mother we respected." Note the distinction: it is what passes for subtlety in Elliott Roosevelt's account...