Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...write a theology without theos, without God. Less radical Christian thinkers hold that at the very least God in the image of man, God sitting in heaven, is dead, and?in the central task of religion today?they seek to imagine and define a God who can touch men's emotions and engage men's minds...
...Then, last May, Georgette became apathetic and lethargic. Her lower lip drooped, and she shivered at the slightest chill. Soon, she was staggering and stumbling as she walked; if she reached for a banana, she missed it. When she could hardly move her limbs and screamed at the gentlest touch, the researchers resorted to mercy killing. A chimpanzee injected with material from another Fore victim's brain developed the same symptoms. Now there have been two more...
...canvases in sight of the public. Turner, instead, completed his. Spectators gawked as the academician, in top hat and frock coat, stood on a bench daubing away at his already hung oils. With his color box beside him, he mixed pigments in whatever was handy, even stale beer, to touch up details that would provide some visual reference for his baffled viewers. Once, a colorful Constable outshone one of Turner's seascapes. Turner put onto his work a splotch of bright red the size of a shilling that drew eyes away from the Constable. The next day Turner shaped...
...doves. He lunched with Idaho's Democratic Senator Frank Church, had a lengthy skull session with Wayne Morse, whose "grasp of the legalities of the situation is amazing," spent the weekend at Hickory Hill as a house guest of the Bobby Kennedys, with whom he played touch political football...
...play, Touch and Go, is an afterthought and a qualification of the novel, Women in Love, Lawrence's denunciation of England's industrial aristocracy. Three of the plays, echoing his autobiographical novel, Sons and Lovers, are concerned with poor middle-of-England mining families in which domineering mothers are locked in love-hate relationships with brutish husbands or acquiescent sons. Two plays are mild-mannered comedies in which Lawrence woodenly twits denatured civilization and desexualized man. There is even one play, based on the Biblical David, which fuzzily explores Lawrence's pseudoreligious cult of the demi-divine...