Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although a change in board rate--now almost an annual affair--is likely, no other apparent changes are expected in the dining halls system. Neither Reynolds nor Bundy had heard of a plan to abolish service on weekends in most of the Houses, as a Student Council report had indicated on Monday night. Both administrators felt that such a plan would be infeasible...
Battling the fierce wind off the Charles as well as the Crimson netmen, the Bruins never had a chance. Brown lost all of the singles and the first two doubles in straight sets, salvaging only the third doubles match, a long three-set affair...
...affair begins with a canvas by E. L. Kirchner which has long been a source of particular exasperation to me. Why Kirchner puts a cat in front of a mirror which conflicts with it and behind a figure which jumps behind it in terms of color, is a complete mystery. Once a painting functions as an entity, poetic licence is justified. But until it does the word is meaningless. This painting does not. If the term "expressionism" means something more than emotionalism, then there is more expression in a plum by Chardin. There is more expression, for that matter...
...result, the affair has a definite family atmosphere about it. A sizeable audience is usually recruited from among the participants' wives and girl friends, and children and parents...
...with wit and a springy, willow-green reed sound, Johnson bounces through a few of his own sunny fancies (Aw C'mon Hoss, Me 'n' Dave), gives fresh nuances to some twilit standards (It's So Peaceful in the Country, The End of a Love Affair). Among his best: a gusty frolic called Lee-Antics, which rings its intricate changes with geysering exuberance, builds to a stunning solo flight on the drums...