Word: touche
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Various of Mr. Norton's other remarks, inaccurate because founded on observations that were necessarily hasty and incomplete, are so amusing as to lose much of their sting. We are surprised to learn for example that "the touch of tradition holds sway, appearing at every turn." Tradition preserves the old and uncomfortable classroom benches and plank desks of a former age instead of replacing them with up-to-date equipment." And again: "The rickety old dormitories of a former century are kept unchanged, a tablet on the door of each room telling who has occupied the room for the past...
...Pierian Sodality will be given in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building Wednesday evening at 8.15 o'clock. In former years the Sodality has given a mid-winter pop concert in the Union, to enable the students of the University to get in touch with the work of the orchestra. Last year an innovation was made in giving the concert in the Music Building, free of charge to members of the University, and the experiment proved such a success that this concert has permanently taken the place of the pop concerts in the Union...
Sophomores and Freshmen who intend to compete for the business staff are to get in touch with the business manager at once. The work of a business candidate will bring him in touch with large business houses throughout the East and such work will give a highly valuable training to any one who contemplates a business career. Two positions on the staff are open to Sophomores, and Freshmen will be taken on according to the ability of the candidates...
...Faversham's share in it is comparatively slight compared to the dreadful bulk. None the less, it is necessary that he dominate the stage three-fourths of the time. He succeeds in doing this inimitably. He presents an almost perfect picture of a gentle, super-intelligent worldling, with a touch of typically Shavian spirituality, a kind of Fenelon in gaiters. It is a very fine creation...
...disadvantages of married life and proceeds to discuss them, as we have said, for three hours on a stretch. A more correct name for the play, we suggest, would be a sexual farce. In many respects, it is the most daring production of this dramatist, and has the inevitable touch of Shavian heroics and Shavian mysticism, as usual, in the last act. The excessively long and mystical monologue of the Mayoress seems at first to strike a false note, until one suddenly wakes up to the fact that it is really the play's manifesto, and that the Mayoress...