Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...touch of nature makes the whole world kin." Thus Shakespeare himself provides the reason why productions of his plays, flourishing in barns and parks beneath the stars, have become a hardy harbinger of summer. Nowadays, nearly every American is within a day's drive of some performance of the Bard. It may be spoken in Elizabethan English or Spanish with a New York accent, played by a professional repertory group or a traveling troupe, mounted in an authentic replica of the 16th century Globe Theatre or on a mobile stage truck...
There are some bright spots in the book. Betsy's letters to Mary have the genuine mock-jovial tragic confessional touch of an unhappy person indulging in the fascination of watching herself go to pot. These letters, more than the dozens of other pages spent on the subject, lay bare the workings of her involuted psyche...
...occasion. Perhaps, said Bundy, it would have gone something like this: "We must hold to one another across the generations and not allow misunderstandings or specific arguments to separate us. America can do nothing if it is not together, and she is not much if she is not in touch with the hopes of others. One must have a passion for peace, respect for power, awareness of friends. He might even have said, 'Now the trumpet summons us again...
...blockbusters had hit. Not a single Viet Cong body was found, although the searchers drew steady sniper fire, showing that Communists were still in the area. In an abandoned cave, the searchers found Viet Cong communications equipment and teakettles still warm to the touch. This led Washington officials to claim that the mission had been a success: the bombers had forced the Viet Cong to break and run. More skeptical officers looked at it another way: the bombing raid had been so ineffective that it had not even tipped over the teapots...
Though L. G. Treadway, now 81, has retired, he still keeps in touch with Treadway's progress over a rickety upright telephone in his office at the Williams Inn. His son Richard, 52, is chairman of Treadway Inns, but his three sons have sold all but 25% of the corporation's 4,000 shares of stock to employees. Treadway's president and chief executive is J. Frank Birdsall Jr., 51, a Cornell hotel school graduate and experienced kitchen man who first worked for Treadway during college vacations. To its charm and cuisine, Treadway has lately added...