Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Beatles sing good night it is to "Everybody Everywhere," and it is true because we are all caught up in this fierce love-hate (but mostly love) affair that we will never be able to explain to our children. Mad records and glad records and bad records and sad records and one day it will all end. But it hasn't yet, I don't think. Where is the foolhardy soul who dares to admit that he thought in 1965 that the Beatles were all washed-up? --SALAHUDDIN I. IMAM
...Gaulle, it was also a matter of principle. From the start, the Gaullists have maintained that the crisis was an international affair in which the West German mark was deeply involved. In the French view, the mark was so strong that it was pulling other currencies off balance. By refusing to devalue, De Gaulle could perhaps bring about a situation in which the Germans would be frightened into increasing the exchange rate of the mark. That would automatically strengthen the franc by making German goods dearer on the world market. De Gaulle also knew that a devaluation would frighten...
...generally lives without any of the conventional moral hang-ups. The trouble is that the freedom bag turns out to be a prison without walls. Pleasure is everywhere, but Joanna is nowhere, until she makes a commitment by falling in love with a brooding black man (Calvin Lockhart). The affair winds down to tragedy; mixed up with the Mob, he gets a long stretch in quod. Joanna, three months pregnant, goes back home to have his child...
HEMINGWAY'S SPAIN: A LOVE AFFAIR...
...question of why he hadn't told me about it when I first called him to invite him, he suggested that maybe it would be better if he didn't come up. I told him that without having read his attack I didn't know if the whole affair would be embarrassing all around but that I imagined that it could be, and that it ought to be his decision under the circumstances whether or not to come up. I did not disinvite him, and I thought I made that plain to your reporter. It was Mr. Kopkind's decision...