Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 35 minutes a bus finally pulled up. Mrs. Lorch took Elizabeth's arm and shoved through the crowd. "I'm just waiting for one of you to touch me," said she. "I'm just aching to punch somebody in the nose." The crowd gave way before the white-haired woman and the little girl-and that was about as close as Little Rock came all week to Orval Faubus' manufactured "violence...
...handfuls of paint tubes and leaped up and down the length of the battlefield. At the peak of his fury, he was ejecting tubes over his shoulder with the cyclic action of a machine gun, until he finally slowed down, devoted the last 20 minutes to adding only a touch of paint here and there. Total elapsed time: no minutes. Title: The Battle of Hakata (A.D. 1281, when the Japanese defeated Kublai Khan...
Schumann: March No. 2, Op. 76; Waldszenen, Op. 82; Six Pieces from Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 (Sviatoslav Richter, piano; Decca). Famed Russian Pianist Richter, 42, plays with an elegant cut-crystal touch that rarely blurs even in the breakneck passages. At full volume and speed, the piano geysers a language as distinctive as it is richly hued...
...House. Money enables Angel to capture a husband, and bore him to death. She turns his spinster sister into her slavish admirer. Her gentle publisher views her with pity and terror. Nearly everyone else is appalled by her selfishness, her indifference to the pain of others. But people cannot touch her, for Angel is totally without humor and icily armored against embarrassment, against all reality...
...point of being moistly sentimental; Cozzens is classical, dry, cerebral. Americans have a youth complex; Cozzens has an age complex. Americans are optimistic; Cozzens is pessimistic (he would say realistic). Americans like change; Cozzens accepts but deplores it. Americans are temperamentally democratic; Cozzens is temperamentally aristocratic. Americans like to touch and handle life; Cozzens, a man who wears gloves winter and summer, prefers to contemplate...