Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...villa near a frontier in a European country," Maria Golovin unfolds a romance between Maria, whose husband is a war prisoner abroad, and Donato, a returned soldier blinded in the (undated) war. Donato at first seeks mere companionship with Maria. He sings: "May I touch your face? My touch is as harmless as a glance." But within a month they are lovers. Blinded further by jealousy, Donato visualizes imagined rivals. "When I had my eyes, I could close them and find peace. Now I imagine things. I see things." His love turns into hate, first suicidal, then homicidal...
...chain-reaction revolution in high school physics set off by M.I.T.'s Physical Science Study Committee (TIME, July 29, 1957, et seq.) will touch 12,000 students this fall. Latest link in the reaction: five summer institutes that last week graduated 300 teachers familiar with the M.I.T. committee's radically new theories of physics teaching and able to handle a wide repertoire of new experiments. During the eight-week courses sponsored this summer by the National Science Foundation, the high school teachers suggested changes in the M.I.T. text, enthusiastically accepted the basic idea: lead students to discover physics...
Platero is small, downy, smooth-so soft to the touch that one would think he were all cotton, that he had no bones. He eats everything I give him. He likes tangerines, muscatel grapes, all amber-colored, and purple figs with their crystal points of honey...
...self-confidence, Khrushchev ignored the deep-seated hostility inside the Kremlin bureaucracy toward a summit meeting inside U.N.-a hostility clearly indicated by the fact that the first reactions of the kept Soviet press to the proposal were uniformly unfavorable. Worse yet, he obviously failed to keep in touch with Mao, whose journalistic mouthpieces, right up to the moment that Khrushchev accepted the proposal, were denouncing it as "deceptive," "ridiculous," "full of pitfalls...
...disposal, political or otherwise, to achieve respect for its national integrity." When the U.S. supplied him only with soothing words, Sihanouk rushed to embrace Red China, announcing the news as he and his Cabinet, in a typical Mao stunt, posed working in the fields to show the common touch...