Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...various fields. At present, the only organized way for a freshman to hear a personal account of what it's like to major in a field like history is to attend the concentration meeting, where he hasn't much chance to ask his own personal questions. Putting him in touch with different students in the field would give him the opportunity to explore thoroughly what a history concentrator reads, writes about, and is expected to think about...
...fighting hard, to even its Eastern Baseball record when it plays host to a strong from Brown, this afternoon. Bob Lincoln, who huried a two-hitter against Tufts a week ago, will probably be coach Norm Shepard's choice to start, but he will find the Bruins no easy touch...
...John Jay Hooker Jr., 35, a stylish, well-heeled Nashville attorney and longtime friend of Bobby Kennedy's who headed the abortive 1961 tractors-for-freedom committee to bail out Castro's Bay of Pigs prisoners. Along with a Southern drawl, Hooker manages a touch of Boston brogue, has a handsome wife who expects to have a baby, Kennedy-style, around the August primary...
...fascist and a friend of Germany. Posters showing Nazi war crimes in Poland are going up everywhere, sarcastically captioned: "Grant and beg forgiveness"-a quote from the letter sent by Polish prelates last fall inviting German bishops to Czestochowa in a gesture of reconciliation. As an added touch, the government last week opened in Warsaw The Deputy, the Rolf Hochhuth play that attacks Pius XII for not fighting Nazism...
...touch in these books is as light as Ronald Firbank's, but unlike that airy Edwardian, Waugh displays feelings that are as savage as Swift's; and in Black Mischief (1932), a hilarious and still timely tale of emerging Africa and declining England, his feelings find blackly humorous expression: the British hero, inquiring after his British sweetheart in an African town, is cheerfully informed that she was the principal ingredient in the stew he has just eaten...