Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PERHAPS what Harvard needs is a good non-fiction novel about a pot-smoking radical from St. Paul's who has an affair with an assistant professor from the liberal caucus whom he meets secretly in the Widener archives and who gets arrested in a demonstration but dies of meningitis in jail before his rich, conservative magazine-writer father can sell the movie rights. Or perhaps a good book-burning...
...Agood deal of this orientation week is a brainwashing affair," said a member of the University Action Group (UAG), which consists of radical Harvard faculty, graduate students, and employees...
...Aime has been almost completely overwhelmed. It was supposed to be a kind of comic-strip fantasy about an unsuccessful suicide who is used by some dubious men of science as an experimental time traveler. Consumed by melancholy and guilt over the failure of a long love affair, the man (Claude Rich) finds himself stuck in time, reliving the agony or the joy of key moments in his past. The trip seems hardly worth taking. For all its technical virtuosity, Je T'Aime is a two-dimensional journey through the fourth dimension...
...York Times called the Olsen affair "a throwback to McCarthy-type repression." It was not that by any means, but because of a personal vendetta, Goldwater was allowed to exercise a veto to which he had no legal or privileged right, and a man well qualified for a job was denied...
...affair has started a serious debate about British accounting practices. Critics complain that laymen have been encouraged to regard accounting as an exact science, when in reality it involves frequent value judgments. Moreover, Britain lacks the equivalent of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to set rules for corporate disclosure, thus allowing management and its auditors to keep ordinary shareholders in the dark about the intricate formulas used to derive profit figures...