Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lattimore's letter of 1938 congratulating Carter on the men he had selected to conduct an I.P.R. survey of Chinese and Japanese affairs (TIME, Aug. 6). Wrote Lattimore: "They will bring out the absolutely essential radical aspects but can be depended on to do it with the right touch...
When Ava was assigned to play the goddess of love in One Touch of Venus, Sculptor Joseph Nicolosi was commissioned to do a statue of her. She began posing for him in a two-piece bathing suit, but he found that this interfered with his artist's conception of the foam-born one, so Ava obligingly removed the bathing-suit top. This, said Nicolosi, after working for a while, was better, but still not satisfactory. So Ava rolled the bottom of the suit down to G-string size, and Nicolosi turned out a magnificent, realistic statue. When a studio...
Vera's Bubble. The trouble with Vera is that she doesn't really like herself, but rather than admit it, she has blown a big, pleasant bubble of egotism about herself. The least touch of reality, as Vera well knows, will collapse her flimsy shelter; so she lives in dread and hatred that slowly encompass almost everybody and everything on the island...
...touch of verisimilitude: Mount Pelee did erupt, in 1902, killing nearly 30,000 citizens of St. Pierre...
...wholly unprofessional air. Chapters are skittishly allotted first to one set of people, then to another. The stern "line" and "unity" of a Flaubert (or of a professional instructor in how-to-write-a-novel) is replaced by the skilled amateur's best tool-a skewer of personal touch and bias that holds all the pieces together. To post-Edwardian writers, obsessed by character analysis and an urge to get to the bottom of everything, The Limit should bring two salutary reminders: 1) actions speak louder than words; 2) the agony of creation belongs to the author...