Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lisa, have made Diary of a Mad Housewife into a good deal more than a mere fleshed-out case study for advocates of Women's Liberation. Carrie Snodgrass, as the harassed housewife nagged to distraction by her socially-climbing husband (Richard Benjamin), makes a token rebellion in her affair with a semi-famous writer who turns out to be equally odious. They are horrible not only because they are men but because they are horrible. Snodgrass is sensitive and put-upon because she is telling the story, but even in objective terms she is clearly the good...
Healy called the entire affair "no more than a big bonfire." The fire had been called in at 8:30 p.m. by some young person, he added...
...Memorial Church Crisis was a simple affair, really. IN 1957, a Jewish couple requested permission to be married, by a rabbi, in the University's interdenominational Church. The request was denied, and Pusey explained the denial by proposing the thesis that Harvard was not, strictly speaking, interdenominational, but interdenominational-Christian. Under immense pressure from every quarter, the Corporation was compelled to retract the stand, and open the Church to all comers...
...judges from retrying war criminals after Allied courts had convicted them, and giving them lighter sentences. Ironically, the provision has served to protect those who were tried in absentia in Allied courts but then surfaced after 1955, when West Germany regained its sovereignty. As a result of the Lammerding affair and other war-criminal cases, however, France and West Germany are now on the verge of concluding a bilateral agreement that would allow the retrial of French cases in German courts...
...Absolute things like this pledge don't interest us," he added. "The defense problem is not such a cut-and-dried affair. I suspect no one in the Union of Concerned Scientists would work on MIRV, but as to the ABM, for instance, that depends on what kind of ABM. Probably about nine-tenths of us would work on a laser...