Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anti-climax, more than a bit careless and in no way comparable to such definitive statements as Dog and Cock of the twenties, Woman Seated Before a Mirror of the thirties, or as early a gem as La Toilette of the Rose Period. Even here, however, the master's touch, a knowledgeable intuition, comes through despite whatever faults exist. Less can be said of the bronze, automobile-headed Baboon with Young, a cheap tour de force despite whatever claims to social satire it may make. There is some slight consolation in this tangible assurance that even the great must...
...away at sunny Sea Island, having kept in telephone touch, Orval Faubus proclaimed his triumph: "The trouble in Little Rock vindicates my good judgment." But the grin was soon wiped off his face by the dramatic rush of events in Washington and Newport...
Last week, betraying a certain nervousness that the anniversary might touch off some kind of sorrowful and sullen demonstration, Minister of State Gyorgy Marosan told 5,000 members of the armed Red workers' militia gathered in a soccer stadium: "Everyone wonders what will happen on Oct. 23. I can tell you-nothing. It will be a normal working day. Children will go to school. Workers will be in factories. We will see who is absent from his place. And if it occurs to anyone to gather on the street, then the workers' power will be there...
...benefits of a position on the news board are numerous: the excitement of a "big" story, the chance to cover a major sport, a close touch with the inner workings of the University. A member of the editorial board, on the other hand, has the chance of expressing his own opinions and then having the satisfaction of seeing them appear in print...
...turbulent story of an era in which religious "competition" meant fire and death. The need for tolerance is thus the major moral Durant draws from the Reformation-which would never have happened had not "intolerant" men been willing to die (or kill) for their beliefs. Yet this somewhat anticlimactic touch of gentle rationalism does not diminish the excellence of Author Durant's work, and in a way perhaps foreshadows the subject of his next volume, The Age of Reason, to be published in five years-if, as Durant puts it, "the Reaper will stay his hand...