Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ragsdale charges that the leadership over the past year has been poor and that the executive committee is "virtually out of touch with the members," and McNicol agrees that the club has "failed miserably...
...Crimson touch players suffered. Terrell and Tarry Robinson, second and third players for Harvard, fell prey to Penn's Howard Coonley and John Reese. Robinson, in a match interrupted by several injuries, lost a heartbreaker 15-7, 15-12, 8-15, 12-15, 15-13. Adams and Dave Benjamin (number 6), Harvard's drop shot specialists, lost to power players...
...evoke of a certain shabby idealism: the women speak reverently of vitamins, reminisce about a sister's wedding, discuss soap opera without being able to remember the endings. That the pretty waitress should look back at being a drum majorette as the highlight of her life is a perfect touch...
...gurgle water through faceted gutters, and an 80-ft.-long stucco mural wall borders the childrens' plaza. The principal delight is a circus of 18 cast-stone horsies, mixed with marble dust to sparkle in three colors. They are indestructible mounts for the most tantrumy tot. A final touch is a hulking, 7-ft.-high abstract human figure, a sort of guardian nanny to children romping there...
...Robert Bresson (Diary of a Country Priest, Pickpocket), who for more than two decades has been making austere, praiseworthy, but unpopular movies. Bresson's treatment of the Trial of Joan is characteristically ascetic; but it is also quintessential history, unique and timeless, graced with a master's touch...