Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What mother had wanted her daughter, then five, to do was to touch the face of her dead grandmother in farewell just before the funeral. Psychiatrists Thigpen and Cleckley are extremely cautious in using this incident as the basis of an explanation of the Eve-Eve-Jane split. But, they say, the little girl had already gained, from previous experiences, an overwhelming fear of death and the dead. This incident, they suggest, may have triggered a flight from reality in which the original personality (most closely resembling Jane) was replaced by the compulsive Eve White, while the hoydenish Eve Black...
...skill at dramatizing his ideas declined correspondingly. Although Munch might be called, after Van Gogh, the father of Expressionism, some of his prints have an affinity in style with Gaughin's flat and more decorative woodcuts of the Noa Noa period. A number of surprising color lithographs add a touch of relief from the general level of psychological intensity...
Stephen R. Graubard, Executive Secretary to the Committee on General Education, said that the Indians will arrive at the University in early March. "They will keep in close touch with the faculty, attend classes, and be shown exactly what we are doing in general education." he added...
...anonymous Romeo, under the pseudonym "Piano Red" pleaded, "Dorothy, my valentine, let the touch of thy finger thrill my life's strings and make the music mine and thine." "Zoe, my valentine," received a briefer message: "Let your love see me even through the barrier of nearness," from "Daphnis...
...portrait of the "new" Soviet citizen to whom freedom is a myth and all the Christian charities of Western life are not even a memory. Moreover, unlike the stories of Kravchenko in the U.S., Gouzenko in Canada or Krivitsky in Europe, the Petrovs' Australian adventure has an unconscious touch of high comedy, together with its low politics...