Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seek to anticipate a problem or an area of discussion before it reaches its peak of interest, thus having prepared the reader in advance. All big topics-and Essay will confine itself to the big and overriding questions-have a cyclical or recurring interest, and Essay will attempt to touch that interest at a time when an expository and reasoned discussion can be the most provocative...
...term, vowed the Sandhurst-educated soldier who seized power in 1958, would be different. "My government," he declared, "will be more in touch with the elected representatives of the people than before." Not only would he set up "forums of intellectuals, experts and knowledgeable persons" for official consultation, Ayub promised, but "In any case, I shall welcome a personal letter from any source if it has an original or workable idea...
...sincerest compliments Pablo Picasso, 83, could pay a friend in the old days was, "he always knew how to touch the sore spot." Not that Pablo was thin-skinned, understand. "People always tell untrue stories about me-let them," he said. He did, until Françise Gilot, 43, his mistress from 1944 to 1954, mother of two of his children, and author of Life with Picasso, told how he kept a goat in the house, blew his stack because she borrowed a pair of his trousers when she outgrew her own clothes during pregnancy, and boasted that "no woman...
...residence: Playwright George Herman (his From Sea to Shining Sea has been optioned by Manhattan's Lincoln Center), who reigns enthusiastically over what started out as a simple new auditorium but is now a $3,000,000 Benedicta Art Center. Boasts a college official: "He adds a real touch of pizazz to the place...
Sands's book shows the awkwardness of an amateur and a touch of egoism. But beneath the blemishes, it bears the earnestness of a man who has seen it all, and is trying to make others...