Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Profoundly touch the heart of an ancient race...
Bunkum & Nonsense. Almost as if to prove it, thousands of disciples-mostly women-used to gather to listen to his lectures on "truth and love." Reverent old women and awe-struck businessmen would crowd around him to touch his hand or coat. Two years ago, close to 50 and still handsome, Krishnamurti returned to India and relative obscurity, still lecturing with the help of a few wealthy followers. Last week he was in the news again, involved in one of India's rare cases of marital dissolution...
...spite of every surface indication to the contrary, there are prophets among us who see our catastrophic cultural situation in the West as bringing us nearer and nearer to the threshold of an age ... of Christian laymen permeating the world with an inward spiritual religion which would touch each mode of its life...
...contained only one dull "earth" color, burnt sienna. The others, which he blended at will into a rainbow of subtle hues, were lead white, cadmium red and yellow, emerald green, ultramarine blue "and, very very seldom, a little black." He applied his colors to canvas with a feather-soft touch that was also precise enough to require hardly any preliminary drawing. Though some of the canvases had been in his studio for years, and had been worked over again & again, they all looked ripe and bright as peaches with the bloom intact. "I'm finished with a picture when...
Thus, when recession-minded merchants felt the first touch of sales resistance, they canceled orders and started to live off inventories, lest they be caught in a slump. But sales slipped only 5% in the firs? six months. Since production dropped more than three times as fast, the U.S. was soon using up far more than it was producing. Then deep price cuts in such big consumer items as clothing brought even the most reluctant customers hustling back with wallets in hand. On top of that, consumption got a few healthy midyear boosts...