Word: affairing
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...Jensen, the work was an affair of the heart from his very first encounter with the Berlev?g Male Choir: "As I looked at them, with their faces marked by tough lives in the Arctic, giving themselves over to the poetry of these simple songs, I was very touched. The whole experience went straight to my heart and I felt tears in my eyes." So, too, will many movie-goers who don't understand a word of Norwegian...
...middle of the second half Barry suddenly ruins what was a very good play. Not content with making Silvester likable, he feels compelled to make him a saint by having him falsely accused of restarting his affair. It's an excuse too far. As his wife melodramatically shrieks, "Even the devil may scorn to have you in his fearsome halls!," the play's credibility collapses. Silvester ends up cancer-ridden and abandoned. It feels like a selfish, self-glorifying bid by the author to turn a fascinating character into a great tragic role. That may not be libelous...
...senior editors of the Harvard Business Review resigned Friday in the wake of the decision to allow a fellow editor to remain on staff despite her acknowledgment that her affair with a source compromised the publication’s integrity...
...Harvard men’s hockey team snapped a recent 2-8-1 skid with its most inspired hockey of the season. The Crimson dominated Brown in all facets of Friday’s one-sided affair, and hung on against a tough team and an even peskier goaltender on Saturday to advance to the quarterfinals of the ECAC tournament in Lake Placid...
Compared to other colleges’ spring festivals, Springfest is a fairly modest affair...