Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Touch of the Poet. The late Eugene O'Neill weaves a spell of sorts out of his favorite notion-illusions are the staff of life...
...reform bill (TIME, May 4) is "66 pages of misery that is not quite so strong." As for Senator John McClellan's investigation of labor-management racketeering, it marked "a re-establishment of the principle of the Star Chamber of the Tudor and Stuart kings, with a slight touch of the Spanish Inquisition...
Displaying a showman's neat touch, Kharlamov once produced Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian A. Zorin to field questions, later used the old politician's trick of calling a surprise session at noon in order to hit the afternoon papers with a fresh story (the claim that Russia would insist to the end on full participation for Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia). With such attractions, Russian briefings regularly attracted bigger audiences than those of the West...
...special feature is a stretch of bench that might be marked in Braille, "Please touch the flowers." Designed for blind children, it contains cacti without thorns, a patch of herbs including several fragrant geraniums such as the lemon, rose, nutmeg and mint varieties. Within hours of its dedication, the exhibit's leaves had been thoroughly pawed, and many a blind child had pressed scented fingers to nostrils dilating with the joy of discovery...
Although the show itself is skillfully and professionally executed, the youthfulness of the performers gives 3 Folk Sing a fresh and natural touch. Its organizer is Brooks Jones, Princeton '56, a former president of the Triangle Club Show. A tall, lanky blond, Jones might pass for a song leader at a summer work camp; and yet, a touch of the Princetonian ivy still seems to cling to him. (On their record cover the three singers are posed on a tiger...