Word: scandalizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...used to be that a fellow used to take his secretary on trips and call her his wife. Now a guy takes his wife and calls her his secretary." But one Congressman was not laughing. To Speaker Sam Rayburn, 78, whose House is like a second home, the scandal was a direct reflection on the whole of Congress. Furious over the conduct of his members, Mr. Sam ordered an accounting...
...asked how many affairs she has had, admits to three but unconsciously lifts four fingers. And there is a telephone conversation between Lover Mac-Murray and Mistress MacLaine (she has tried to commit suicide, and he couldn't care less about her condition-or more about the possible scandal) that makes a rarely profound and ignoble vignette...
...Affair, by C. P. Snow. The eighth in a projected cycle of eleven novels about Britain's New Men-the scientists, bureaucrats and educators who form a new upper middle class-this book is an expert, ironic and somewhat sluggish examination of a scientific scandal at a major British university...
...Affair, by C. P. Snow. The eighth novel in the author's projected eleven-volume cycle on Britain's New Men uses a scientific scandal to set off a typically reflective, genteel-and slow-moving-investigation of one of the dilemmas of power: how to judge not, yet still do justice...
...Affair, by C. P. Snow. The eighth novel in the author's projected eleven-volume cycle on Britain's New Men uses a scientific scandal to set off a typically reflective, genteel - and slow-moving - discussion of one of the dilemmas of power: how to judge not, yet still do justice...