Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rather flat role of Happy, Robert Blackwell seems ill-at-ease at moments and rarely does his characterization catch fire. The role of Charley, the nextdoor neighbor, is carried by John Coe with a sure touch and necessary comic relief. However, he rushes through the beautiful and poignant requiem quite wastefully and thus loses some of the cathartic effect of the play...
...November 1955, Krim claims, one of Soustelle's Moslem agents got in touch with an F.L.N. officer and proposed to establish a decoy unit within the F.L.N. itself. The French were prepared to provide guns and money for the unit, which would appear to be loyal to the F.L.N. by day, but would actually fight the F.L.N. by night. For nearly a year Krim and some of his subordinates strung the French along, fought ferocious mock battles amongst themselves at night, and to provide casualties, left the imaginary battlefields strewn with what Krim describes as executed "traitors" dressed...
Although many students have telephones after the first week, the eight messengers are still kept busy carrying notes to inform young women that their dates have arrived. This Service makes it unnecessary to shout "Hey, Susie," when trying to get in touch with a dormitory resident, Miss Williston noted, terming the Message Service "one of our most important functions...
...This new entry in Angel's "Great Recordings of the Century" series presents Prokofiev's own performance of his Third Concerto as he recorded it in London in 1932. Pianist Prokofiev sails through the familiar, exhilarating, gently ironic music with a rock-sure rhythmic stride, a springy touch and a tone that can melt or soar into green lyrical fancies...
...February day in 1955, Charles Kilpatrick, who worked for Georgia Power Co., was holding a surveyor's rod in the fenced enclosure of one of the company's substations outside Atlanta. Somehow, the rod touched a live wire carrying 11,000 volts. Kilpatrick was savagely burned and lost consciousness. Doctors at the Emory hospital doubted that he would live and it was touch and go for weeks. With third-degree burns penetrating to the bones of his lower left leg and right foot, Kilpatrick mercifully did not regain full consciousness for two weeks. By then, Surgeon William...