Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Honors students, however, the CEP found a "significant group" whose interest the Departments ought to "engage." While such students "typically aim neither at scholarly study nor at later professional accomplishment in their field of concentration," said the CEP report, Departments can interest them in aspects of their field which "touch them as men and as members of a community...
...befits an evening of fun, Fiorello! portrays a crusader without ever adopting the tone of a crusade. While pumping lead into ward politics and taking potshots at the Tammany wigwam, it pokes the right touch of fun at Fiorello's own brandished tomahawk. Winningly played by Tom Bosley, La Guardia proves the more engaging for not being too lovable, the more enlivening for not being too reasonable. And as a period piece that comes up with, among other things, battered Pathe news shots, Fiorello! often has an earned nostalgia...
Under One Roof. With his monocle, his grey, lavender-tinted gloves, his white forelock setting off Italianate good looks, Whistler cultivated an exotic showmanship to mask self-doubts about his craft. The company he kept added a satanic touch by being mad, neurasthenic, and sexually deviate or profligate. The most colorful of the odd lot was Charles Augustus Howell. One of his exploits was to dig up the coffin of Elizabeth Rossetti by moonlight to retrieve a manuscript her grieving husband, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, had buried with the body. Howell housed his wife, a bevy of artistically inclined mistresses...
...TOUCH OF INNOCENCE (312 pp.) -Katherine Dunham-Harcourt, Brace...
Danner's younger brother Bill, a 6ft., 5 in., 200 lb. sophomore, will open at center if his sprained ankle is sufficiently healed. Bill Danner is the squad's strongest rebounder, using his bulk authoritatively, and he has improved his scoring touch considerably...