Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Africa and the Middle East to add a foreign relations touch to his image...
...already beginning to fade from sight. The son of a carpenter (and amateur musician), he studied piano at the Dresden Music School, at 18 started to play concerts all over Germany. A decade later World War II interrupted his career. Assigned to an antiaircraft unit, he did not touch a piano for seven years, except to play in U.S. military hospitals as a P.W. at war's end. When he resumed his piano career in 1946, at 34, after a year of small-town orchestra conducting, he found that his technique was rusty but his musical perception far sharper...
...most fashionable portraitist now active is René Bouché (rhymes with touché). He may also be the best. Last week at Manhattan's Alexander Iolas Gallery, Bouché had on view a brilliant display of what his flickering, sweet-and-sour brush can do. Recent subjects: Truman Capote, Isak Dinesen, Anita Loos, Elsa Maxwell, Mrs. William Paley, the Duchess of Windsor, Lady Astor, the Duchess of Argyll and Alexander Calder...
...time hopping from country to country, divides the rest between offices in Oakland and Manhattan. His 12-ft. blond-wood desk in Oakland is equipped with 20 intercoms and 17 phone lines that can reach his network of 91 plants and facilities in seconds. Henry J. still keeps in touch from Hawaii, often calls up sleeping Edgar at 4:30 a.m. and chortles: "Oh, did I wake...
This does not simply mean that Harvard must righteously refuse to touch forms with an affidavit of belief attached; the University must also refuse to participate in any program which includes such an affidavit. A decade ago it might have been possible to secure repeal of the NSF affidavit by lobbying, but past inaction has committed Harvard to taking a far stronger position if it wants the affidavit removed...