Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks the Administration had seemed becalmed. As the Bert Lance affair dragged on through the dog days of summer, much of the White House's time and energy-too much-was deflected by the latest press accusation or the newest plan to save the beleaguered Budget Director. Now, with October's brisk breezes and brilliant hues, the man in the Oval Office seemed to emerge reinvigorated. Suddenly, Jimmy Carter was in motion again-launching initiatives, planning journeys, defending his programs, attacking their detractors. But motion does not always equal progress, and the President's whirling-dervish routine...
...counter concerned its timing. The sudden speedup in the drive to reach Geneva by year's end raised suspicions that Washington's zeal might have had less to do with urgent realities in the Middle East than with the Administration's own hankering for some important post-Lance affair foreign policy successes. Vance concedes that the year-end goal for Geneva is totally arbitrary. But he maintains that Middle East diplomacy had been stalled for so long that some calendar goal, however artificial, was necessary if the peacemaking momentum was ever to be resumed. Says Vance: "You have...
Soon afterward, he turned his love affair with the English language into a profession. They have been an item for 47 years, spanning forays into sexual innuendo (Shakespeare's Bawdy), A Dictionary of Cliches, and Partridge's most famous work, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. Until an operation several years ago left him quite frail, Partridge spent his days in carrel K-1 of the British Museum Library, reading everything from pulp novels to plays (consuming "about 80% of all comedies written in English between 1530 and 1970" for his latest work). In the tradition...
...hand it to Safire, who often sportingly supplies the antidote to his own poison. On a trip to London he reported that "the average Briton" was horrified by the Lance affair: "Once again the American press seems to be engaged in 'breaking' a President... So I tell my British friends that the real stability of American government is in our public sense of constitutional morality, and that the press is doing the Carter presidency a favor," etc. Safire, however, then prints the reply of an English friend: "I would be more inclined to believe you if you chaps...
Unlike Harvard's previous triumphs this year over Columbia and Cornell, this one had class. It was a solid, take-it-to-'em affair, the Crimson's finest hour since New Haven two years ago. Dartmouth just wasn't prepared...