Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abba Eban, 44, Israel's able, longtime Ambassador to the U.S. and the United Nations, invited him to get into politics. South Africa-born, Cambridge-educated Abba Eban will presumably be groomed to replace ailing Golda Meir (formerly of Milwaukee) as Foreign Minister. First he must get in touch with domestic problems, and learn to leaven his meticulous classical Hebrew with the kind of everyday Hebrew that contemporary Israelis understand...
...such an advertisement--whether a reasoned statement or a scurilous attack--the Bulletin acted correctly in rejecting it. The policy which it follows of avoiding intramural controversy is a healthy one; the Alumni Bulletin correctly sees itself as a pleasant journal which lets the alumni body keep in touch with each other and with the University. To get involved in factional fights within that body of alumni would merely destroy the magazine's purpose...
...Privy Council of Eastern Nigeria. At least, that is what the villagers of Abakaliki have been told. None of them are prepared to believe that the majestic, awe-inspiring Chief Obodo is "properly dead" until his body is brought home from Enugu and they can test the evidence of touch and sight...
Composer George Rochberg, 40, has a distaste for "the terribly logical ways of classical music" and a yen for the rockier paths of atonality. Composer Norman Dello Joio, 46, is an unabashed romantic with a lucidly lyrical touch and scorn for the "black-noted paper" school of composers, who "feel sorry for themselves because they are misunderstood." Last week Composers Rochberg and Dello Joio each unveiled new works...
...once wrote, "God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third." Urbane Satirist Menen has siphoned laughter out of stuffy pukka sahibs (The Prevalence of Witches') and sacred Hindu myths (The Ramayana). Rarely has his comic touch been lighter or more impolite than in this current spoof on science...