Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...columnist: Maryland McCormick, 55, wife of Colonel Robert R. McCormick, the Times-Herald (and Chicago Tribune) publisher. Maryland's new column started off this week on a subject on which both she and her predecessor are undisputed experts: publishers' wives. Says Mrs. McCormick, with a touch of the outspokenness that has made her husband famous: "[Publishers' wives] have an excellent sense of humor ... All lords of the press take themselves very seriously, so [we] have taken the lines of least resistance and are gay . . . Most newspapermen think that they form public opinion. This is somewhat true...
...that Heated Discussion has personal roots. It reminds him of his arguments with David Siqueiros, who opposes Tamayo's work because it does not reflect the Marxist ideology which Communist Siqueiros insists is part of the Mexican heritage. Tamayo has also put some personal feeling−and a touch of his new humor−into Inexpert Smoker, which portrays a head gripping a pipe and surrounded with smoke, ashes and dizziness. Several years ago, Tamayo's wife bought him a pipe in London; he likes the feel of a pipe, but much smoking makes him turn green-sick...
Thomas Whedon, as the lead, had a difficult role: that of a man trying to rebuild his life after it went to pieces. His hulking, patient stance and his ungraceful motions put across the sincerity and the touch of despair that his part demanded. Whedon's delivery, however, was a little monotonous, particularly in the opening lines...
Mathilda Hills and Robert Heavenridge played husband and wife, and both were excellent performers. Miss Hills spoke her lines with restraint and a touch of the puritanical which Shoup intended. Heavenridge turned in the consistently best performance of the afternoon as an understanding but slightly intimidated husband...
...only female attending Faculty meetings. In the position of "a minority of one," she was an immediate success. "We all just went overboard for her," said a History department colleague. "One of the boys from the start, she is a person with great learning, but without even a touch of the pedant...