Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point in getting in touch with him," Berg said on Monday, "because I don't think there's anything to gain from cooperating...
...poetic riffs occurred: "From the opposite side of the distally twinned uncus," Nabokov wrote in a 1944 report describing genus Lycaeides, "and facing each other in the manner of the stolidly raised fists of two pugilists (of the old school) with the uncus hoods lending a Ku Klux Klan touch to the picture...
...Humbert's sad obsession with twelve-year-old Dolores Haze went off in the U.S. of the late '50s like a shot in church. At first, U.S. publishers were afraid to touch it. Vera was afraid Nabokov might lose his job at Cornell if they did. When it finally came out, reviewers, not yet used to such material in "serious literature," flew into rages of indignation and feigned boredom. New York Times Critic Orville Prescott, in particular, earned a gargoyle's niche in literary history by exclaiming, "Dull, dull, dull." But Lolita in due course was recognized as the masterpiece...
...alabaster skin, brilliant white hair, exquisite hands, she is a natural beauty. Their dinner conversation thrives on little disagreements, contrapuntal, and often not really resolved. In one exchange, Vera begins by explaining the mating ritual of the crested grebe, a grubby little bird which frequents the lake. They never touch, she says, waggling a delicate finger, but wiggle one foot back and forth. "No, no, no, no, no," says Vladimir, who has let this get by during a ticklish entente with a waiter. "They waggle their heads!", and he begins waggling vigorously...
Though the intramural program limped through the year, with more forfeits than ever, there is, in fact, some activity worth mentioning. Greenough jumped off to a fast point lead and maintained its top ranking throughout. Championships in touch football, cross country, tennis, softball, and basketball were all earned by Greenough. Wigg. West and Massachusetts, under the direction of Emile Godfrey, captured most of the other titles, but as Sherman said, "After we won the basketball, we were pretty sure no one could stop us." It is reported that Sherman "goes wild dragging kids out there," and this probably accounts...