Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Understanding. Accordingly, the recordings abound in varied repetitions and rippling cadenzas, written in by Landowska where she felt they were implied in the score. By delicate adjustments of touch, Landowska even manages to convey some of the sharp differences of tone color characteristic of the pianoforte of Mozart's day. The result is a series of performances with shimmering articulation and a profound, spacious sense of repose. Played far more slowly than the usual "virtuoso" Mozart performances, they suggest tensions in the simple melodies rarely detected since Mozart...
...contrary, he seemed to fit in perfectly," the friend observed, "looking and acting the part more of a traveling salesman than an Oxford don. Gaitskell is a very bright and shrewd man," he continued, "combining all the sharpness of a brilliant, well-trained civil servant with the light touch of a hearty beef-eating Englishman...
Gaitskell is equally adept at using this "light touch" in both banter with miners in a midland pub and in debate on the floor of Commons, where his parliamentary wit has been sharpened through long tenure in the front benches. In his first bud-get message as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1951, for example, he presented complex economic data underlying a major Socialist policy change with such vigor and clarity that the House discarded its normal reserve for such matters and rose to applaud as a unit. As a high minister in the Socialist government and as questionner...
...function of the first is not only to interview most, if not all, the applicants from the New York City area, but also to keep in touch with all the schools in the area to find out who the prospective applicants are and to encourage them to apply. Sometimes a member will take a high school student to visit the College for a weekend. In any case the records of the interviews are sent to the College's Admissions Office in Cambridge to become part of the student's application...
Many of 40,000 people sitting in the Stadium contributing their five dollarses were Harvard alumni, who maintain a folk custom of keeping in touch with the old place by returning on Fall weekend pilgrimages. It's probably better to have them come than not come, for they are encouraged to give money when they taste the dust of Harvard Square on their tongues once again. They can hope for a Crimson victory; but we wish that they wouldn't expect it. Even the suggestion that Harvard alumni would consider a winning football eleven as continuing assurance that...