Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kraus plans to record all the piano concertos, Mozart's crowning achievements in instrumental music. She has begun with Nos. 12, 18, 20, 23, 24 and 26, all written after Mozart, renowned as Austria's greatest pianist, moved to Vienna. His playing was famed for its singing touch and exquisite taste. Eschewing broad contrasts and romantic rubato, Miss Kraus emulates the 18th century master...
Even on the present budget, the center has developed new uses for computers. The machines analyze the structure of English sentences, they solve intricate differential equations, they can flash mathematical curves on a screen at the touch of a button. All one has to do to make them work for him is learn their argot. Automation of the Widener files is one new use that will be possible with the expanded facilities...
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Since Goldwater's defeat, the leaders of the Republica Party have been Congressmen, mostly from rural areas, Brooke explained. These men, he suggested, are not in touch with the modern problems of cities and urban development...
...first it seemed like a nice way to patch up the feud between city hall and the press: a touch football game in Central Park on a Sunday afternoon. But the field was muddy, the city hall eleven was mean, and the city room team was rusty. New York's Mayor John Lindsay, 44, made it clear that he can tackle all kinds of problems. "Anyone lays a hand on the mayor gets shot," called a police detective from the sidelines as the game began. He was joking, but that was the end of the joke. Lindsay...