Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minimal art seemed out to prove to the hilt Architect Mies van der Rohe's dictum: less is more. Many of the objects were simply boxes, beams of steel or lines of bricks. Any figurative suggestions were banned. So was any sign of the craftsman's personal touch: whether large or small, the objects were commercially constructed, color was applied with a spray gun. The aim seemed to be to assault the viewer with the very "thingness" of the object. As shadows played across the empty surfaces, gallerygoers were invited to ponder the mysteries of life...
...Executive Committee of Philips Brooks House Association jumped to a quick lead on a safety, but the Harvard CRIMSON bounced back for a 23-2 win in the 63rd touch football game that has been played annually ever since PBH was founded. "We would have won if we didn't have to use that girl on our team," said PBH captain Bear Barnes...
Administration Democrats dismissed the proliferating anti-Johnson groups with bored shrugs. A White House staffer scoffed: "All it takes is two people with a mimeograph machine and the cooperation of the New York Times. It looks like a movement, but the moment you touch it, it dissolves into mist." Wyoming's Democratic Senator Gale McGee urged Johnson to put purely political considerations behind him and concentrate on winning the war. "The issue is so critical that if I were in a position to talk to the President," said McGee, "it would be with the suggestion that he be prepared...
...this, Douglas always adds a touch of spice. A deft, breezy interviewer, he pumps a starlet about her rumored romance or quizzes the Rolling Stones about rag-mop hairdos. On another occasion, he startled Guest Hubert Humphrey by casually commenting that "the President says you can make a speech as easily as you take a breath." The Vice President muttered, "Did the President say that?" After a long pause he added: "Then it's true...
...worst qualities, our inane curiosity and opportunism. They messed about Yastrzemski as if to pull him down. Solid, neatly divided in two equal parts by his black belt, loosening up with grace and some levity, the Great God Yaz seemed impentrable in his excellence. The Press could not touch...