Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eulogies were not exactly spontaneous. They came as a defensive reaction to reports leaked by disgruntled Democratic liberals that the 75-year-old Speaker was "losing touch" with his rank and file. Columnist Jack Anderson, Drew Pearson's alter ego, claimed that McCormack's major legislative concern was "the remodeling of the Capitol building's west front." A Washington Post editorial, concluding that McCormack no longer brings to the speakership the "energy, shrewdness and fighting capacity that it requires," urged that he "step down gracefully...
...made a work of art an object of worship; now it is apt to be just a household object, a neatly executed artifact. Is that enough? "If a painting does not make a human contact, it is nothing," says Motherwell. "The audience also is responsible. Through pictures, our passions touch; therefore painting is the fulfillment of a deep human necessity, not a production of a handmade commodity. A painting, or a man, is neither a decoration nor an anecdote...
...SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL and RIGHT YOU ARE. Sheridan's bastion of busybodies provides a showcase for the comic talents of the APA repertory company, and Pirandello's dramatic investigation into the nature of reality affords them the opportunity to keep the philosophical ball rolling with a light touch...
Still, until that happens or until they lose their II-S's and have to fight for their I-O status, the Harvard CO faces little trouble. Those who went through the trials of SSS Form 150 several years ago have even begun to regard it with a touch of affection. One CO recalled, "I really resented having to 'prove' my objection then. But now I'm sort of glad. 150 makes you think, makes you evaluate yourself...
...girl's soft profile gives it the monumentality of proud, aloof youth. His Picasso study of a mother and child, making a contrapposto of shoulders and hands, is superlative enough to make the Blue Period of 1904 seem a perfect neighbor to Mantegna's 15th century touch. For Sachs, it was the exquisite image in itself; nothing else mattered...