Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some hope to the city's despairing -and departing -middle class and its huge reservoir of talent. His interest and participation in cultural activities and his just plain hijinks -capering on the Manhattan Bridge with a film crew to encourage motion-picture production in the city or playing touch football in Central Park -are reviving the city's ability to enjoy itself. If his energy and courage hold out, Lindsay may just manage to make New York City more livable as well as more governable...
...showdown, the vote split along predictable factional lines: 313 for Hard-liner Sasaki v. 274 for Eda and his vision. It was a guarantee that if Premier Sato does call a general election next month, the major opposition will not only still be out of touch with modern Japan, but will also be even more badly divided than his own scandal-tainted Liberal Democrats...
...that has designs on the N.C.A.A. championship-this year, next year or the year after. The question is how. One coach suggested raising the height of the baskets from 10 ft. to 12 ft.; that proposal was discarded when it was found that Lew can leap up and nearly touch the top of the backboard-13 ft. above the floor. Another coach facetiously plugged for sinking the baskets into the floor like golf cups. "That way," he said, "it should at least take him longer to reach over and stuff the ball in." A third alternative was tested by Southern...
...Administrative Board for any given case. There have been several cases in which a student has been expunged from the records of the University--the most severe punishment the Board can administer. Although this has probably only happened two or three times, it seems to add a medieval touch to the spectrum of punishments. One student is reported to have been expunged for having beaten up a University janitor. Another was rubbed out when it was discovered that he had entered Harvard under a false name without ever having been accepted. An Ad Board recommendation for a student's expungement...
...Arts in London uses up about a year in training actors for this kind of comedy -- and Chapman has had to make his actors feel at home in fops' clothing in about a month. He has paced the play at a good trot, and when he invents business, his touch is sure. He has given the play an authentic tone, and refused to pull in silly anachronisms to get laughs...