Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME is correct in pointing out the aura of bafflement surrounding the Angela Davis affair [Oct. 26]. Miss Davis is variously described as "brilliant," "cerebral," "rational," and we are told that she chose active membership in the Communist Party, U.S.A. because of her commitment to strict Marxist rationality. But her advocation of freedom in the "act of refusal" is not consistent with the determinist world view of dialectical materialism, which leads any good Communist ideologue to define freedom as the recognition of necessity and to dismiss any other notion as bourgeois sentiment. Nor did her flamboyant Afro coiffure lend itself...
Most operas concentrate on the obvious: love (usually thwarted), murder, political connivery. Not those by Czech Composer Janáček (TIME, Dec. 5, 1969), who had a taste for fantasy and the mysterious. Moreover, in The Makopoulos Affair, completed in 1925 three years before his death, the composer created an opera that offers no arias, no immediately whistleable tunes but is nonetheless marked by a considerable genius. Last week, when the New York City Opera produced it, a sellout audience responded with a twelve-minute ovation, a generous part of it in praise of the ingenuity used by Director...
Albert said that the letter of finding was only a preliminary part of the investigation, which he described as "definitely an ongoing affair," and that it had not stressed women because Harvard's data on women had not been prepared fully by the time the report was submitted...
...espionage" created by "the mad desire of U.S. imperialism to dictate its will to all mankind." Pravda hinted that the U.S. had "reincarnated" the policies of John Foster Dulles. It also made an absurd comparison between the U-8's accidental overflight and the U-2 spy-plane affair of 1960. While the two flights "might have had different concrete aims," said Pravda, both were "aimed against the state interests and security of the U.S.S.R...
...Kremlin note complained nonetheless that "general military activity" of the U.S. near Soviet borders has been responsible for ten violations in the past three years, including the U-8 affair. However, none involved spying missions. Five of the violations occurred when U.S. polar-bear hunters overflew several small Russian islands in the Bering Strait. Three others concerned U.S. commercial flights along the polar route to Japan. Another involved a U.S. fighter-interceptor that flew over Soviet-held Big Diomede Island while chasing off a Soviet bomber near the Aleutian Islands...