Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thank you very much for printing the abusive letters you received [TIME, April 15] for your review. When a single pointed question draws such fire from the 200% faithful, it's not hard to understand why Hollywood hardly dares touch any subject at all controversial...
...some 13,000 troops from Europe within a year and to put their chief reliance in nuclear weapons. France's Foreign Minister Christian Pineau argued heatedly that unless conventional forces were maintained, NATO would have to use nuclear weapons in even a minor defensive action, and thus might touch off an atomic holocaust. Norway and 'The Netherlands were also worried about having nothing but nuclear eggs in the basket. Aware of European fears of a chain reaction to Britain's troop reductions. Dulles brought assurance from President Eisenhower that the U.S. has "no intentions whatsoever" of reducing...
...Double Bass. The new concerto is a close collaboration between Piatigorsky's Russian ebullience and Walton's polite English diligence. Composer Walton started his work two years ago on the Italian island of Ischia, but he and Piatigorsky, then touring the U.S. and Asia, kept in close touch. "I would cable him, IN BAR FOUR AFTER F. IS THAT A B OR B FLAT," says Piatigorsky. "and I would get an answer: B FLAT. SORRY. LOVE, WILLIE." The cabled exchange of suggestions and corrections went on even after the Boston premiere, and up to the Concerto...
Windbreakers would not cure Harvard tennis, but they would be a step to help a seemingly hopeless disease: there are too few courts; there are no clay courts for everyone's use. The teams, about one one hundred-fiftieth of Harvard, alone can touch a Harvard clay court, and Leverett's one court may give way to house-building; the courts are spaced too awkwardly close to one another; the courts are severely cracked...
...just completed a thesis on the cadenzas to the Mozart Piano Concerti; he must have been discouraged with what he found, as he wrote his own for the performance of the Concerto No. 24. They were short and well suited to the work, which he played magnificently. His touch was sparkling or tender as called for, and his interpretation showed meticulous care. The Orchestra was fine behind him, and, except for a tempo disagreement in the last movement, the rhythms were taut and exciting...