Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anticipate that each Kennedy will ask you what you think of another Kennedy's a) dress, b) hairdo, c) backhand, d) latest public achievement. Be sure to answer "terrific" This should get you through dinner. Now for the football field. It's "touch," but it's murder. If you don't want to play, don't come. If you do come, play, or you'll be fed in the kitchen and nobody will speak to you. Don't let the girls fool you. Even pregnant, they can make you look silly. Above...
...Newport, with some 2,000 people arriving in chartered buses to stand outside while Boston's Archbishop Richard J. Gushing performed the nuptial Mass in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church. Jackie soon found out what it meant to be a Kennedy: she broke an ankle playing touch football. But she has become part of the solid front the Kennedys present to the world, even to the point of indulging in masterful oversimplification in defending father Joe against charges that he runs his children's careers. "You'd think he was a mastermind playing chess," says...
Passers-by in the Harvard Square area were startled yesterday noon to see a noisy crowd pouring out of Harvard Stadium. The boys and girls, who carried pennants from Boston English and Boston Latin schools, had just watched English overcome an early two-touch-down Latin lead to capture the traditional contest...
...born pastry cook like Molnar, with his delicately browned, bite-sized ironies and his lightly philosophic macaroons. Perhaps it needs a more pervasive verve. Perhaps it only needs a wicked fairy, or a fuming stepsister, or a missing slipper. But for all its many graces, it is a touch unsatisfying...
...drawing back of all "attachments or projections, whether they are valid or false," which leads to "a deliberate attrition of consciousness." In turn, this results in a greatly increased activity of the unconscious. At this point the individual begins to run into trouble, growing increasingly "out of touch with the realities of society and of his fellow men." Progoff notes that the author of The Cloud seems to have had considerable harassment from extraverts; he advised his readers to pay no attention to such carping and reminded them of Martha's irritation with contemplative Mary, who, said Jesus...