Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once again. Scolded N.Y. Timesman Arthur Krock: "Mr. Truman and his staff should have realized ... that his absence . . . would set up a whispering gallery." But even the hard-hearted Krock was moved to concede grudgingly that "the President is a prisoner of his office . . . there is in him no touch of malicious subtlety...
Profoundly touch the heart of an ancient race...
...Completed three other plays: A Moon for the Misbegotten (which will be produced in December), A Touch of the Poet (which will be produced next year), Long Day's Journey into Night, which, for reasons unspecified, cannot be produced until 25 years after the author's death...
...writers like Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck, J. P. Marquand and John Hersey could afford-as the Moscow Radio charged last week-to "stay out of touch with the life of their people and the problems which moved all freedom-loving humanity," but Soviet writers, warned a Pravda editorial, must dispense with the "nonsensical theory of a postwar breathing space and the right of literature to relax from ideology...
Angel on My Shoulder presents Paul Muni as a murdered gangster and Claude Rains as the Devil. Aiming at satire with a touch of uplift, the picture succeeds in being vaguely grisly and definitely foolish. Actor Muni's natural dignity, which prevents him from appearing ridiculous in embarrassing surroundings, is all that saves the movie from disaster...