Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What faults the play does have are due in the main to its unnaturally restricted setting. With no comic maids, noisy children, or boisterous relatives to lives things up, dc Hartog has attempted to provide a touch of raucous humor by a truly banal bit of stage trickery--a raised platform around the bed over which either one or both of the characters is prone to stumble in moments of passion or tenderness. This sort of thing is good for a yuk the first time, but after the third repetition even the fellers and gals of the John Hancock Life...
...Touch-Off. There were three specific instances of State Department changes-in-front which had touched off the editorial explosions. These were...
...Hitler removed him. In 1942, with the U.S. in the war, Hitler made von Rundstedt Commander in Chief West, to prepare for the eventual Allied invasion of Europe. By 1944, says World War II Historian Chester Wilmot (The Struggle for Europe), von Rundstedt had lost the master's touch, and was having to drink himself to sleep at night. After the Allied landing in Normandy and the subsequent breakout, Field Marshal Keitel, Oberkommando chief in Berlin, got von Rundstedt on the telephone and wailed, "What shall we do?" Von Rundstedt snapped, "Make peace, you fools!" Keitel ran to Hitler...
What London saw were 38 paintings as clean and clear as light mountain wine. Ghika's style is closest to cubism, but a cubism tempered and refined with a solid, realistic touch. On Ghika's canvas, Paris' chimneyed rooftops, the jackstraw confusion of a Greek hillside town become strict, disciplined designs blocked in with arbitrary colors. But there is no trouble recognizing what he paints: his sharp draftsmanship shows all the cruel dryness of Greece's stony uplands, its patterned fields, searing sun, and gaunt, bare-limbed fig trees. Said London's Observer, after seeing...
...program. Princeton has tried a one credit course in the history of war, taught by civilian members of the faculty. Today, we learn that the local Military Science staff plans a step or two in that direction. Col. Dupuy has announced a course condensing technical matter and adding a touch of the liberal arts. It will be taught, however, by the military...