Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well now Clifford has come out of the West with a new play called "The Big Knife." With it, he takes some vicious slashes at the guts of his former paymasters. He says nothing new, but he has not lost his touch in saying it in a startling way. Every Odets line has the impact, and sometimes the serewiness, of a tabloid headline. Perhaps his characters aren't real. Perhaps they are. Clifford Odets is real. He is the star of the show...
Reporter Schou got in touch with Dr. Jacobsen and followed the story as it developed over the succeeding months. Danish medical periodicals reported on various aspects of it, but not until the interim review of the first 500 patients to be treated with antabus was published in November did Schou consider the story solid. He submitted it to TIME'S Medicine editor, and it was published...
...said: "Whatever it is, it is nobody's business to tell me what to do with my land. I know best how the manure should be placed on a wheat field on a sloping hill. And I don't want my neighbor's plow to touch my soil. What's mine is mine, and no one can take it away from me, whether it is Emperor Franz Josef or the boss of the Communists, Rakosi...
...files of our Committee, running back over a ten-year period, show that the Communists have always found the teaching group the easiest touch of all the professional classes for actual Party zealots and fellow travelers...
Johnny Belinda. Jane Wyman and Lew Ayres in a well-made drama flavored with more than a touch of old-fashioned melodramatics (TIME...