Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...schooling becomes a charade in which the students' real aim is to escape embarrassment and pain. By contrast, before he gets to school, Holt argues, a child has "a love affair with life." In fact, his attitude toward everything in the world about him is to "taste it, touch it, heft it, bend it, break it-and he is not afraid of making mistakes...
...Lindsay's unique touch with the poor confined to New York. Touring Newark slums last week as vice chairman of the President's Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (other commission members were visiting Detroit and New York), he was quickly recognized and surrounded. "You're the most beautiful cat in the world," one man told him. Lindsay just smiled. He had heard it before...
...Viet Nam. They talk about everything from the breechblock of the M-16 (prone to jam) to the accessibility of fresh eggs for artillerymen on the DMZ. Mostly they talk strategy and political ramifications. Thanks to instant communication by satellite, President Johnson can, if need be, keep in direct touch-through existing chains of command-with both Ambassador Bunker and General Westmoreland. The President boasts that he has satellite-relayed strike photos of North Vietnamese targets within minutes of their emergence from the developing fluids. "Hell," he says, "F.D.R. would have waited a week" for similar results. That speed...
This year the Broadway season opens in California - at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theater on Sept. 12. The occasion is the U.S. premiere (and pre-New York run) of Eugene O'Neill's More Stately Mansions, his last discovered work and a sequel to A Touch of the Poet. The star is Ingrid Bergman, making her first U.S. stage appearance since 1946. And even if that combination fails to catch on, Broadway abounds with portents for one of the better seasons in years...
...City. The harrowing beauty of Satyajit Ray's film making is not easy to analyze. It is a quality both evanescent and palpable, as if the Indian director had found a way to take the lens off his camera and allow life itself to touch the raw film. Whether or not Ray's latest film to reach the U.S. is his masterpiece is beside the point; each of his works is a version of perfection...