Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...error, it's usually a beauty. Please add to the list of Anderson "off-target scoops," for which I, one of the victims, have yet to see a retraction or apology: his unquestioning and unwarranted support of Marcus Aurelius Arnheiter, as revealed in the new bestseller The Arnheiter Affair by Neil Sheehan; who is also winner of (oh, sweet irony!), this year's first annual Drew Pearson Award for investigative reporting...
...quickly the Seattle musicians, or any others for that matter, are back beating the bush with more Brahms and Beethoven. Conductor Katims, who found the trip a thoroughly warming experience (thanks partly to the men's pantyhose he wore throughout), would like to make it an annual affair. "There were wonderful vibes from the people," he said as the orchestra headed home. "I could feel them in the small of my back...
...Funny Thing (music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim) was first performed on Broadway ten years ago, and is right now enjoying a deleriously successful revival in New York. A light-hearted, bawdy affair, replete with slapstick routines and terrible puns, you know it works if you have to strain to hear the dialogue under the audience guffaws. The production at Leverett House is a mixed bag, but the book and the performances generate a lot of laughs...
...keep his vessel seaworthy. Each is obliged to meet a set of evolving standards defined by trade practice and consideration of economic and legal rationality. In an important sense, seaworthiness "is" the practice of captains and outfitters of shipt; and maximizing profits "is" the business conduct of men of affair. If current trade practice emphatically recommends the use of ship to shore radios, a ship owner can be held liable for neglecting to equip his tugs with them. If businessmen decide that socially responsible investments are indespensible to preserve long-term profits, the courst are likely to agree with them...
...October 26, President Thieu told the French paper L'Aurore that the war had lost its political significance because there was no longer any fighting near urban areas: it "is now becoming a military affair." In the interview, Thieu said that he wanted his splintered opposition to unite in the formation of a "loyal opposition" against the Communists who would be forced to surrender or be destroyed...