Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gina were as much a part of his education as the volumes he held like a lover. ("I realized," he recalls of one liaison, "that in moments of desperation people forsake all reason.") In time, Singer was to find a greater passion: writing. It is the one truly requited affair in the book, and it makes every page shine with a wit and vigor that belie the author's 73 years. Further illuminations are provided by Raphael Soyer's nostalgic drawings and paintings, every one of which is a complement to the text and a compliment...
College students often do not take pleasure in reading, because long reading lists "demand one night stands with a book instead of a slow seduction and love affair," he said...
...tremendous cultural and historical loss for the City, and this vacation is your last chance to visit the old legend. I mean this is it, the clearance sale, the closeout, the end of the affair. No more movie/stage spectacles. It's now or never. The last double bill, which will run through April 12, is "Crossed Swords," starring Rex Harrison, a film based on Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper," and the last Great Easter Show...
...concert's representative of the nineteenth century was the Siegfried Idyll of Richard Wagner. This composer's propensity for sleeping with the wives of his benefactors is well known, and his scandalous affair with the wife of the distinguished conductor Hans von Bulow finally ended in her divorce and her marriage to Wagner in 1869. In celebration of that event, Wagner composed the Siegfried Idyll, which, in its tranquillity and relative simplicity, contrasts sharply with the stereotype of Wagnerian heaviness and turmoil. Unlike his operas, it is modestly scored, an intimate love poem which Wagner never meant to have published...
Call it only a college romance if you like but for me it was a torrid love affair. For four years you led me around--the anticipation, the sudden passes, the excitement, and then the score...