Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your April 11 issue: your Publisher's Letter put the finishing touch on that exceptionally fine article on the Maryknoll Sisters; it was also "warm and human...
Only the thousands of children seemed to thrive in the suffocating atmosphere. "Yes, sonny, you can touch everything," answered the G.M. attendant while adding in an undertone to the father, "Everything but the G.M. chorus girls." And sonny did touch everything; he wasn't bothered in the least by the scores of attendants who wiped away his greasy fingerprints as soon as he moved on to touch the next thing. The clean-up staff was thoroughly decent about the situation, however, and no less friendly than the G.M. lawyers who undoubtedly waited in the wings to take care of sonny...
...pleasant and harmless old custom. The ground rules of egg rolling are simple enough, but few people know them and fewer observe them. The egg rollers should pair off and one bowls an egg down a grassy slope. The other tries by rolling his down to touch the first. This almost never
...happens. On the next try, the one who rolled first now rolls second. If, improbably, the eggs do touch, then the owners go into Phase 2 of the competition. This is identical to egg picking, another old Easter custom. In egg picking (or butting) one competitor holds his egg point up, protecting all but the tip with his fingers. His rival taps downward with the point of the other egg. WThen one cracks, the contest is resumed with the large end of the egg. The one whose egg is cracked on both point and butt surrenders...
...even interpret. Instead, he analyzed what he saw, and thus helped raise art scholarship to a new plane of exactitude. Berenson confirmed, by close study, that every artist's picturemaking is as personal as his handwriting. Even if the painter works in a strict tradition, his personal touch will appear in small things: the way he paints ear lobes, or hair, or crosshatches a shadow. By familiarizing himself with Italian Renaissance art down to such details, Berenson became the reigning expert on the subject. His overriding idea-that art must be experienced to be appreciated, that the viewer should...