Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bulldogs cannot touch the national championship which the Crimson won by beating Princeton on Saturday, 5 to 4, but they can move into a three-way tie for the Big Three title...
While its charm is impaired by a bitter denunciation of the sort of social "game" that must be played by rules, The Rules of the Game is still a comedy. Chase scenes and insinuating servants join other well-aged comic props, twisted by the Renoir touch into a clever and enjoyable satire...
...deep, her knightly husband dead of her farewell kiss. Giraudoux could savor its melancholy turns and bitter twists, its clash between innocence and worldliness, its sense of mankind's dreams of perfection and descent into reality. And Giraudoux's own resolute but compassionate worldliness does touch Ondine with glints and flecks of gold. There are, too, bright-colored court scenes in which a magician conjures up events to come; there is a high-mannered court practicing the flatteries and-deceits that Ondine cries out against; in Mel Ferrer, there is a handsome knight for her to love...
...even with the stigma of a first novel, The Night of the Hunter cannot fail to be impressive. There is the local color of a Caldwell short story, and the sustained narrative of Galsworthy, both combined with the new, effective touch of Davis Grubb...
...were paid, and another 50? was declared this year. White readily admits that the Central still has some basic troubles: a big passenger deficit ($50 million in 1952), extensive repairs needed in the roadbeds, high terminal costs. Says he: "We have problems that will not respond to a magic touch from Palm Beach...