Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...depicts life in Communist countries, shows people dying in prison, idle factories, cannon ready to fire, churches demolished, and people in slave camps. The sharpest touch: a mask of Rivera peering from behind a dollar-sign totem pole...
...PLOT TO HOLD POWER. Behind Headlines is pince-nezed Joseph P. Kamp, who edited the Awakener-well-loved by the Nazis-from 1932 until its death in 1936. In 1944 he was cited for contempt of Congress and sentenced (in 1949) to four months in prison. Kamp's touch is far from subtle: he fans anti-Semitic feelings by picturing prominent Jews who are supporting...
Bemelman's has the light touch, and this touch is usually applied to descriptions of "highly disguised actuality." Those who remember his earlier works will recall stories of gently macabre funerals, majestic dinners, elaborate parties and exotic adventures, stories told in a manner that firmly pushes fantasy into reality...
...rate a large share of the blame for the perilous state of the nation's defenses. But many a good Democrat, glumly contemplating the leaderless, divided state of the party last week, realized with a sharp sense of loss just how much the party would miss the political touch of the old campaigner...
...home from the conference, a Chicago businessman told of more Stalinist boosting to come: Moscow will set up a permanent committee to keep in touch with businessmen in all countries-"something like Rotary International...