Word: touch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What we really need is some kind of student ombudsman, whose sole job would be to keep the Masters and tutors in touch with student opinion," he explained. "There definitely should be someone actively seeking out student feeling on the important issues...
...begins to calculate what day Rudy was conceived: Thought of death leads to thought of birth. It must have been that time ... Molly standing at the window, watching those dogs at it in the courtyard and that constable grinning up at her: "O c'mon, Poldy. Give us a touch ..." At Dignam's funeral, later, some men are gossiping about Molly ("a good armful she was"), as they file under the towering rows of crosses on the tombs. Joyce's sense of the everpresent union of disparities is well dramatized in Strick's Ulysses...
...leap from a window, he testifies, "I'm sure that he wasn't on horseback, for no horse from the window came down." But of all the minor roles, Juliet Cunningham's Barbarina was best. Her fourth act cavatina ("I'ho perduta, me meschina") had just the right touch of girlish dolefulness...
...make his art old fashioned. A Countess From Hong Kong is modern cinema, though not, perhaps, what we have come to expect from modern cinema. Take the new Chaplin film on its own terms; contrary to all those patronizing critics, the old man hasn't really lost his touch, and Countess is a glorious romance...
...numerous slip-ups in the author's style and manner of writing "history." Manchester meant his volume to complement the visual record of the four bleak days in November, 1963. Yet his shoddy craftsmanship and endless supply of irrelevant detail have dulled the effect with which he wanted to touch us deeply. In the end, the book negates the event...