Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matter: Elvis up there singing, singing. Love, love me do. When suddenly he begins to shrink. Say from 18 feet down to about three. The screen shatters into a half-dozen other, simultaneous, images. Up left, an exterior shot of Las Vegas' International Hotel. By day, a pretty dull affair, not to be compared with Caesar's or the Sands. But by night! ELVIS. In mile-high neon. As if the very stars had fallen from the desert sky, the guts wrenched out of the moon; all so that some mad manipulator of electric gases could spell out ELVIS-COMIN...
...that Yale not bring its female members to the concert. Haywood Torrence Jr. '71, president of the Harvard Glee Club, said yesterday, "In my opinion, the Harvard-Yale Football Concert with all its traditions-the type of music and the spirit of the weekend-should be an all-men affair...
...this "sexually sick culture," three fourths of murder victims are women; only one-twentieth of the murderers are women, she said. Rape is an "every day affair, a form of public lynching." Illegal abortion is equivalent to "state execution...
...real concern of The Makropoulos Affair is time. Adapted from a play by Czech Dramatist Karel Čapek, it deals with a 342-year-old woman who calls herself Emilia Marty. She has not aged much physically, but she has seen, heard and had just about everything and everybody. Longevity has drained away all feeling and left only a beautiful monster of ice and ennui. "There is no joy in goodness, no joy in evil," she says. "When you know that, your soul dies within you." Nevertheless, she is still human enough to be terrified of death, and the opera...
...problem. Luce feels he witnessed wholesale indifference to the fate of the Vietnamese people. When his Vietnamese workers on one agricultural program were deprived of six months' pay by a Vietnamese provincial administrator, he was told by U.S. and Vietnamese officials it was none of his affair. When an entire island was defoliated by U.S. planes, Luce asked $10,000 restitution for lost crops. A U.S. official told him: "The whole damn country is not worth $10,000." He switched to journalism in 1967, and ever since, his strongly antiwar attitude has led him to concentrate on revealing...