Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orchestration. The musical theme that runs through the opera is the broad pomp-and-circumstantial Trojan March, first heard with ironic overtones as the Trojans, tired of Cassandra's doom-singing, drag the horse into the city; then brassily as they arrive at Carthage; and again with a touch of moody irony as they board the ships for "Roma, Roma, city eternal...
...months he has been president, the Ford Foundation has already felt his touch. To consolidate the educational work of the foundation and the Fund for the Advancement of Education, he drew up plans to merge the two, appointed the fund's respected Clarence Faust a foundation vice president. He also made clear that he thought the Program Committee, which reviewed all projects and managed to satisfy no one, should be eliminated. "When?" someone asked him. "Now," said Heald...
Like harelip and cleft palate (TIME, Sept. 17), mental retardation may show up oftener in certain families without being directly hereditary by any Mendelian pattern. Dr. Stott's theory: the tendency may be hereditary, and disease or distress during pregnancy may touch...
Britain's good grey BBC, stiffly challenged by commercial TV, has been denying for months that it plans to cater to anything so vulgar as popular taste. Its critics have seen the taint of the common touch in the BBC's decision to accent TV while lopping two hours daily off the five-hour highbrow Third Program. But last week they could take heart in a new appointment. As chairman of its board of governors with complete control over all radio and TV programs, the BBC named Rugby Headmaster Sir Arthur fforde, 56, who does...
Author Marquand's mellow, witty writing sticks as close to the characters' speech as a tonsil, as close to their skins as a T shirt. He really loves them all, with good reason. Their camaraderie is real and appealing, as is their occasional touch of middle-aged resignation (sometimes known as wisdom). Marquand suggests that the country club is an oasis of sanity shut away "from a few of the more unpleasant realities that surround us." With its parking spaces achoke, its locker rooms asweat, its bars awash, and a loyal barkeep resolutely giving the little woman...