Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Survivor. De Gasperi spent the next 14 years in the quiet of the Vatican library, filing index cards and acting as a receptionist. He stretched his $80-a-month salary by doing German translations at a nickel a page. Surreptitiously, he also kept in touch with his fellow Christian Democrats. When Mussolini fell, a small but well-organized Christian Party was ready. In December 1944 De Gasperi became Italy's Foreign Minister. A year later he was Premier. The first thing De Gasperi did was to get a salary advance so he could buy a new blue suit...
...single, defenseless human voice is set off against the relentless clash of cymbals; and in the sweet, concluding Agnus Dei, there are chilling traces of jagged pagan rhythms (later used by Stravinsky). Conductor Munch tenderly and forcefully drove toward the end, spinning out the Amen with a loving final touch. A cathedral hush hung beneath the bare steel rafters; then the crowd leaped up and cheered...
...poured in from his bestselling Revolt in the Desert, but Ned sent most of the profits straight to charity. Ned's chief financial problem was how to answer his fan mail when he could only "afford two rupees [about 70?] for stamps every week." He noted, with a touch of malicious pleasure, that his modesty made him a thorn in the flesh of his superiors. "The officers steer clear of me, because I make them uncomfortable...
...Amsterdam, serious questions were asked. Among them this: 'What does the world see or think it sees when it looks at the church?' One of the answers to that question was: 'It is a church that has largely lost touch with the dominant realities of modern life.' I am not sure that answer is true; but I am sure that the church must face up to the issue of justice. It is not enough for us to repudiate, as we do, the atheism of orthodox Communism . . . Men who affirm that nothing can separate us from...
...Italy, flew her to Hollywood. At the airport she was met by Hughes agents, who shooed reporters away, bundled her into a limousine, hurried her off to "a hotel distant from the center of the city . . . I discovered I was practically locked in the hotel, unable to get in touch with anyone." All day she endured English lessons, '"orrible RKO peectures," rehearsals for her screen test, and the importuning of lawyers, who wanted her to sign a contract written in legal English...