Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...battered and bruised ruggers never had a chance against the Eagles, still fresh after a romp over the Jumbos. The victory over B.U. was a Pyrrhic affair, for the Crimson lost the services of Mickey Doyle (sprained ankle) and Sal D'agostino (bogus ejection by referee), and the remainder looked to be in less than perfect condition...
...death of his father, in the act of urinating, and ending with his mother's death almost half a century later, Jed milks his memory for fragments of meaning. The narrative proceeds chronologically, skimming rapidly over Jed's academic career, slowing down to capture the degeneration of his love affair, and focusing finally and most persistently on his moments of existential angst. Jed's own formlessness is thrown into relief by his encounters with a cluster of well-drawn minor figures, from the cheerfully mundane Cudworths, whose very name suggests the unquestioning content of cattle, to the impeccable Mrs. Jones...
Through the death of Jed's first wife, the ending of his affair and his subsequent remarriage and divorce, Warren skillfully ties his protagonist's sufferings to his pastlessness. For Jed, reality is both elusive and painful, and escape from pain involves flight into a world without time. The costs of such flight are severe, but in A Place to Come To they are too often intellectually understood rather than emotionally endured...
...bottom line? There's no way to report a 19-2 score without resorting to the old football analogy. Now, had the final been 23-2 it would have been another thing. Then everyone would have assumed that it was simply a Crimson-Independent affair...
...going to be a very brutal affair," Fraser continued. "I have to say as a Member of Parliament that, if...they decide to go, I say 'Look out!' because that going is going to be on my terms... The self-interest that I'm going to exercise is not their interest...