Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admirers say that he is honest, fair, shrewd, that he has the common touch, knows the labyrinths of Washington. They feel that he is an able governmental practitioner who knows how to get things done. His administration would be canny, cautious and conservative, and would probably bring about great harmony between the White House and Congress...
Hotels in Boston and Cambridge are packed, Memorial Hall is buzzing as a crew of Jubilee men put the final touch on the decorations for tonight's dance, and U-Dryvit-Cars around the Square are all sold...
...limits: he will not play music he is not sure he understands (although he has tried Gershwin without much success). Looking at a new score, he seldom says, "This is bad." Instead, he says, "This is not music for me." He does not trust music that does not touch his heart. He feels that he was a pioneer in his youth, and that it is now up to younger conductors to pioneer the music of their generation. His ambition now, he says, is "to come closer to the secrets of Beethoven and a few other eternal masters...
...broad strokes of the brush would paint the portraits of all the early Presidents with this exception, and a few more strokes would answer for any member of their cabinets; but Jefferson could be painted only touch by touch, with a fine pencil, and the perfection of the likeness depended upon the shifting and uncertain flicker of its semi-transparent shadows...
...scenes in "The Lady from Shanghai," from New York to the West Indies to San Francisco, are all fresh as well as realistic, and the peculiar Welles touch is always there. The tortuonsness of the plot will provoke interest and armchair detective work rather than boredom, but it is important to make sure of the times and arrive at the beginning of the picture...