Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the discontinuation of touch football, singles, and tennis, Freshmen must now turn to basketball, boxing, and wrestling for athletic credit, the Department of Physical Training announced yesterday, when the change went into effect...
Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Father was a soft touch. Every day Helen lined up her schoolmates at his soda fountain. Helen was rationed to two sodas a day, but usually managed to borrow against the future. Father read Andersen's and Grimm's fairy tales to his kids; if there was a vaudeville show he took them, and never mind about classes. Summers he and Helen fished in Wisconsin; winters it was duck hunting in the Illinois River, and Helen had a small shotgun made specially for her. During baseball season, Helen got up from...
Last week some of the A-plus results came out in book form (Renoir Drawings, Bittner; $15). Renoir's freshman efforts were a touch too perfect-for a while he tried to imitate the exactitude of Ingres -but by his sophomore year the middle-aged master's drawings were true-to-life and also true to the principles which had been formulated by Poet Charles Baudelaire : "A good drawing is not a hard, cruel, motionless line enclosing a form like a straitjacket. Drawing should be like nature, living and restless. . . . Nature shows us an endless series of-curved...
...Beatrix Potter "knew it was quite unnecessary to distort animals and make them 'funny' in order to touch the imagination of a child. On the contrary, it was their very beauty, and the seriousness and reality of their little world, which had held her entranced through the long summer holidays of her own childhood." Some of the animals in the illustrations of the Potter Tales are set in their frames with the dignity and charm of aristocrats in old English miniatures...
...show lacks is a usable plot, reasonably funny writing, good direction, and competent acting. Bits here and there lend a professional touch: Two songs, "Love Is a Random Thing" and "A Slight Case of Ecstasy" ought to make the rounds of the dance bands despite their indigestible lyrics. Miss Segal's stage presence and ability to toss off lines shame the rest of the east, although she is given practically nothing clever to say and even less to sing. On a basis of personal attractiveness and or capacity to sing, dance, or be funny, J. Edward Bromberg, Warde Donavan, Alma...