Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where the gamble could mean a payoff of $23,500 per man-like last week against the Dallas Cowboys for the N.F.L. championship and a trip to Los Angeles. Unable to run against a fierce Dallas defense, Quarterback Starr suddenly put wings on the ball. Three times in one touch down drive, confronted with third down and more than 12 yds. to go, he threw for crucial first downs; in all, he hit on 19 out of 28 attempts for 304 yds. and four TDs as the Packers outscored the Cowboys...
...generation's other folkways are equally expressive. The no-touch, deadpan dances that so intrigue and sometimes repel adults are, to the Now People, not a sex rite but a form of emancipation from sex. "After all," says Jordan Christopher, "the beginning of dance was self-expression. It began without physical contact, and it wasn't for centuries that dancing went into the drawing room and became stiff and formal...
...century. Along with the church of Egypt, Ethiopian Christians adopted the Monophysitic teaching that Jesus had one nature in which the human and divine were commingled-a doctrine that was condemned by the Council of Chalcedon in 451 A.D. Branded heretical, the Ethiopian Church gradually lost touch with the mainstream of Christianity and even with the Coptic Patriarchate of Alexandria, to which it is still theoretically subject. Since 1959, Ethiopia has had its own patriarch, the blind septuagenarian Basileos...
...Director Charles Schultze, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Acting Attorney General Ramsey Clark. He threw a big barbecue luncheon on the lawn. He set up a full-scale press conference and, with typical attention to statistics, reeled off a count of all the times that he has been in touch with Governors since he became President-400 personal talks, 200 phone calls...
...Benjamin into an aphrodizzying spin. Trying feverishly to free his writer from this sexual block, Perkins soon follows his own nose to the selfsame love. On this slender plot line, the playwright has hung some Simon-pure comedy of the inane, the illogical and the absurd. His natively quirky touch is evident when Benjamin attempts to escort the girl bedward with the line, "This is a citizen's arrest." But every so often the gags are too simple Simon...