Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While visiting the Beethoven shrine, the great Paderewski on being asked to play the Moonlight Sonata on Beethoven's piano, modestly replied: "I am not worthy to touch it." But "Give 'em Hell" Harry sat right down and played a sonata of Mozart's on Mozart's own piano, right in front of Mozart's portrait. I can imagine the irascible ghost of Wagner muttering "Squirrelhead...
...tries to be cheerful, philosophy is always breaking in, and no sooner does philosophy take its ease than show business bangs loudly on the door. For all Shirley Yamaguchi's sweet reedy singing, and the libretto's thoughtful and pretty words, Utopia seems freshened up by a touch of vulgar Broadway speed or a bit of Harold Langri-la. Lang and Joan
...halo of his breath your mother knew him . . . loathing the touch...
...front in the red plush seats, the Metropolitan Opera often gives off the suggestions of high living-the rustle of silks, the lambent touch of mink, a bouquet of costly perfumes. But the $4,500,000-a-year business of putting on the opera, a money-losing enterprise at best, always is a matter of shirtsleeves and hard heads, of penny-pinching and tough bargaining. Last month the Met's money-harried management threatened to cancel next winter's entire season because the managers and the artists' union could not get together on contract terms. But last...
...press conferences, following virtually all of them with a statement for TV film, plus five radio interviews and two on live TV-and answered innumerable questions by reporters outside the press conferences. Meantime he haunted the doctors, stood attendance on the President's family, kept in close touch with Vice President Nixon and White House Staff Secretary Colonel Andrew Goodpaster. He got home twice, but only to shower and change his clothes. Through the long Friday night vigil, he gulped black coffee, sometimes lacing it with Scotch...