Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Poor Richard is not well served in direction and cast. Director Peter Wood has the Kon Tiki touch: he sets the play adrift for the night and apparently prays that it will reach its destination. As The Caretaker showed, Alan Bates is fearfully good at transmitting menace, but as a charmer his signals are garbled. As Bates's second mate-to-be, Joanna Pettet is an indelibly enticing ingenue, but speech is her impediment. She says all the words correctly, but her avidly sincere delivery turns comic gold into lead. Poor Richard is not rich enough to afford...
...erase, or explain, the tragedies of history, but tragedy is by nature inexplicable, unavoidable and irreversible. Arthur Miller proposes that the living atone for the dead. But universal guilt, like universal love, is an abstraction. "What can ever save us?" the prince asks in a moment of anguish. A touch of genuine humility might help. Only God can be responsible...
These tropical lands responded to the Portuguese touch, Freyre said, and fitted elements of native civilization into the Portuguese mold, Natives accepted the valuable elements in European culture rather than reacting against them as simply another intrusion of repressive colonialism...
While Harvard has been generally un-impressive in its first two games, there are a few bright spots. The third line has proved its worth by scoring three of the Crimson's six goals. If the veteran Baldy Smith-Pete Miller-Gordie Price line coulld regain its old touch, Harvard might be able to deliver a fairly effective attack...
...high jump is probably the Crimson's strongest event. Chris Pardee won the indoor IC4A title with a jump of 6 ft., 9 in. last winter. Chris did 6 ft., 10 in. this summer and lest anyone fear he has lost his touch this fall, the lanky junior cleared 6 ft., 6 in. on his first try of the season last month...