Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enables his daughter to make this otherwise simple family story a vivid portrayal of the disturbing effects of fame and a public career on their quiet home life. This theme, although rarely dealt with in the past, is a dramatic one, and the writer treats it capably with a touch of humor and a strange note of tragedy that appears even in the moments of Wilson's greatest triumphs, reaching a climax with Mrs. Wilson's death...
Jackson--one of the best scholars of the department, a good teacher and lecturer, but slightly pedantic and at times out of touch with his classes...
Judge Stone stated in reference to the Harvard riot: "There seems to be some idea that there is something sacred about the person of a Tech or Harvard student and that the police should not touch them. That is not the fact...
...will be master of what is mine own. She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing; And here she stands, touch her whoever dare; I'll bring my action on the proudest he That stops my way in Padua...
DEATH WITHOUT BATTLE - Ludwig Renn - Dodd, Mead ($2). Cinematic story, lent a Grimm's fairy-tale touch by primer characterizations and writing, of Communists and disillusioned Storm Troopers in Hitler Germany; by the author of War and After...