Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military system in this country has always been dominated, psychologically and spiritually, by civilian attitudes; witness the endemic griping, loyalty with a touch of skepticsm, the general counting of the days until one's time is up. This is made possible only by the non-voluntary aspect of membership; even those who enlist may claim that they did it because they knew it was coming. And it means that the membership feels an overall identity with the free society. The military is an autocracy in which actions are dictated but not attitudes; it may be an unpleasant experience...
...make the difference between a minor crisis heating up into a major one or cooling off until next time. But I do mean emphatically to suggest that constant communication among foreign affairs professionals about what they believe to be their common concerns may sometimes put them quite out of touch with reality. They may become so absorbed with diplomatic move and counter-move that they lose sight of what motivates the individual players. They may even come to believe that foreign policy controls domestic policies, rather than vice versa...
...Manhattan, the light goes on at the Head Shop, a hole-in-the-wall Lower East Side shop opened last year by Jeff Click, 25, and Ben Schawinsky, 27, who wanted "to do something legal and be in touch with the beautiful people." Their initial $500 investment turned into a $3,000 a week bonanza, so last October they opened a Greenwich Village branch. Both shops keep psychedelic hours (2 p.m. to 10 p.m.), sell up to 5,000 packs of cigarette paper a month, count as regular customers Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and by now, say the owners...
...also incredibly frank. He thought the importance of the meeting was being exaggerated and he told them so. On Wednesday afternoon, Dean Ford, who had not been keeping in touch with the talks, said in answer to a reporter's question that it was his impression Goldberg's letter ruled out a selected group of questioners. SDS, in response, made public what Dunlop had told them that morning...
...theatrical grace is hard to come by at Harvard; its omission in the Lowell production is not a mortal sin. And one touch in Toad of Toad Hall would seem to show that God may be smiling on the play. When Mole enters Badger's digs she myopically surveys the huge Lowell House chandelier and murmurs an impressed, "Oh I say," After an infinitude of blithely ignorant House productions it is good to see a cast aware that a couple of tons of glass and wire may come plummeting down on them any minute...