Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cardin, who has also branched out into men's fashions, fielded his corps of boy and girl "cosmonauts" in jumpers and welders' helmets for the third season, as if to insist that they will really make it to the moon. His newest touch was wide, wide vinyl "space belts," which gird the torso from belly button to bosom bottom, zip up the back...
...order to stay in touch with his students, Alden holds twice-monthly breakfasts with them and semiannual conferences at which they can grill him on any topic they wish. He also plans to spend occasional nights in the dorms. Alden often shucks his glasses and joins students in a pickup basketball game on the court behind the presidential house. His kind of enthusiasm spreads to his staff. At many universities, says Fine Arts Dean Jack Morrison, things "slow down at the top-but that's where things begin to swing around here...
Although All-American Bob Corris is still sidelined by mono, Harvard managed to take first and second in the breaststroke. Buzz Cummins turned in another fine performance, but he had to hustle in the last twenty yards to touch out rarely-used sophomore Dennis White...
...difficult to generalize about. It lacks focus." The statistics are not always available-and when they are, they are not always reliable. In taking the continent's measure, Gunther confesses, he felt rather like the Emperor's tailor in prewar Japan, who was not permitted to touch the imperial figure and "had to estimate measurements while standing respectfully several yards away...
...that one expands the senses or compels the imagination. The gallerygoer cannot stop the tastemaker from talking. But he can stop listening quite so docilely. Ultimately, art can be of value to him or to posterity only if it somehow enhances his own awareness of the world-by sight, touch or emotion-but it has to be his own decision. He has a duty to look long, learn and then judge, to like or not to like. He may make hideous mistakes. That is his risk-too few people take it-and better than abdicating personal reaction in favor...