Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long time in steel uniondom and in the executive suites of the industry. In his campaign, Abel accused McDonald of "tuxedo trade unionism," a euphemism for the charge that McDonald has been too friendly with Big Steel's management. McDonald, said Abel, had failed to keep in touch with local problems, had "swept them under the rug, and now the mound is so high you stumble over...
...find a popular issue on which to attack Pearson, actually lost prestige through his contentious opposition to Canada's new maple-leaf flag. The present revolt against him was staged by a group of respected Quebec M.P.s who consider Diefenbaker too old, too crotchety, too out of touch with the country to lead the Conservative Party. What kept him in command was his almost messianic popularity in the western prairie provinces and the lack of a serious challenger. Conservatives in the industrialized eastern provinces would much rather see Manitoba's able Premier Dufferin Roblin or Nova Scotia...
...Illinois is matched with the big Brazilian state of São Paulo, whose booming highly industrialized capital city is Latin America's closest facsimile of Chicago. Most of the U.S. states then send a delegation down south to see how they can be useful, then get in touch with local organizations at home to get the plans going...
...hard-line Stalinists in government and an old anticlerical tradition. Churches are empty and in poor repair; most of the dioceses are without bishops; priests are still arrested for anti-regime activities. But even here the church's prospects are improving. President Antonin Novotny is eager to touch up the Czech image in the West, and his government was clearly embarrassed when the Pope bestowed a red hat on Prague's Archbishop Josef Beran, now under house arrest. Czech exiles in Rome are preparing Beran's quarters for the consistory, and last week there were rumors that...
...lack of "fundamental ferment in the humanities" at most universities. According to Sizer, "too much university scholarship in the humanities is sterile and out of touch with our culture...