Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bolster his charge, Congressman Taber produced an impressive list of valuable exports: machine tools, railway stock, electric generators, mining and industrial machinery. It was impressive enough to touch off a House committee hearing this week. But John Taber, as usual, was overstating his case. Shipments to Russia this year were a drop in the U.S. export bucket: 1.1% of the total. He also seemed to have his laws and figures crossed...
...Dali shows us the hierarchized libidinous emotion, suspended and as though hanging in midair, in accordance with the modern 'nothing touches' theory of intra-atomic physics. Leda does not touch the swan; Leda does not touch the pedestal; the pedestal does not touch the base; the base does not touch the sea; the sea does not touch the shore...
That sounded like the old Dali, the spellbinder whose ice-cold art-like his Leda-could sometimes shock and sometimes fascinate, but almost never touch...
...became chairman in 1934, steadily built the company sales to a peak of $379,032,427 in its last fiscal year. President Harry Bullis, 57, will move up into the chairmanship, and Executive Vice President Leslie N. Perrin, 61, will become president. "The old man" will keep in touch as chairman of a newly formed "committee on finance and technological progress...
Socrates is the name of the protagonist here, and Athens (California) is his home town; but these are the only classical touches in an otherwise humdrum production. This probe into the lusty bustle of Washington confusion is constructed along lines so directly opposite to plays dealing with the other Athens that all references to Greece and Grecian society appear dragged in by quotation marks and seem completely out of context. Revolving around a yearling Congressman who identifies himself with his namesake, the play attempts to inject an Old World perspective into the hurly-burly of politics; but long before...