Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fate of the anti-ballistic-missile system is currently touch and go, with 49 Senators declaring their opposition to it, 47 for, and four undecided. Last week Dr. John Foster, the Defense Department's research and engineering director and a chief ABM evangelist, warned: "Intentions of a potential enemy are a secret he can easily keep. We do not have a crystal ball; yet in order to deter nuclear war in the future, we must decide on future weapons...
More than half the mothers in her study eventually married, and despite the stereotype of the fatherless slum family, half of them were still in touch with the first child's father or living with him. Although half the women were less than 20 years old when they had their first child, close to a third had no other children. Nearly half the mothers were not on welfare at the time the survey was made; only one-third had been on public assistance for a year or longer. And as for blatant immorality, the statistical evidence, although not clear...
...Shopping Guide is the only Fielding publication with an entrance fee. Stores listed pay for the privilege, and they are generally the same shops that are mentioned, in the same glowing language, in the Guide to Europe. Fielding shrugs off that touch of commercialism by insisting that the payments ("production subsidies," he calls them) are too small to be significant and that the shops exercise no control over what Nancy writes about them...
...R.F.K., student riots, Dr. Spock. But the right eye glints backwards to Agamemnon, Sir Thomas More, Napoleon, King David, Adam. "I am learning to live in history," Lowell writes and adds, as his chameleon's tongue flicks out to ingest another aphorism: "What is history? What you cannot touch...
...chases a couple of kids up and down the Ohio River. The Voices of Glory (1962), a moody, backward-looking novel, has its share of crazy thunderation. They offer some clue as to why the "muttering meanness" guff in this book turns out to be more than just a touch overwritten...