Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country school teachers in the poor Auvergne town of Montboudif, a name, like his own, that used to evoke howls of laughter from school friends because of its sound. To "Pompon," as the French affectionately call him, it has proved no liability. Indeed, he can turn on the peasant touch at the whiff of a Gauloise, and uses it to great effectiveness campaigning. Pompidou blazed through his studies, graduating first in his class from the prestigious École Normale Supérieure in 1934. While his classmates ground away at the school's notoriously brutal classwork, Pompidou forever seemed to have...
...Pompidou seemed less disturbed by the news than anyone else; he simply removed his favorite modern oil paintings from Matignon, set up an office on the Left Bank and waited for life to come to him. Or seemed to wait. Actually, he made a point of keeping in close touch with Gaullist friends, listening sympathetically to their complaints and quietly gathering up loyalty for the future...
...real possibility of maintaining it as a center. The parts of a multiversity have no center." To help broaden specialists' minds, Hutchins proposes to halt university expansion whenever enrollment exceeds a few thousand. Instead, he would build smaller universities in which all major disciplines would be in touch, giving both scholars and students badly needed interdisciplinary studies. Many campuses have weighed a curb on secret war research, and last week M.I.T. began turning away new contracts. It seems undesirable to transfer such work entirely to the military, but much of it could well be shifted to independent research centers...
...familiar folk parable. One blind man feels the elephant's leg and says that.the beast is a pillar; another feels the tuft of its tail and declares the elephant to be a broom, and so on. Depending on which tracks of the record listeners happen to touch upon, the recording group-which is also called Blood, Sweat & Tears-sounds like many different bands. In Smiling Phases, it is a hard-chugging blues-rock outfit with a fillip of modern jazz. In Blues-Part II, it is a modern jazz combo with a streak of contemporary classical dissonance. In Variations...
...more nor less than soap opera. But Mr. Bloch knows how to put dialogue together, not so that his characters sound like real people--God forbid--but so they sound, at best, like prize people. I think twice when one character asks hi sister, "Why did you let him touch you?" and she replies, "Why do people go to museums? Women don't make decisions like that." In my limited experience, it is precisely such decisions that women do make, but the line sticks even if it doesn't wash. And a line like "I wish to hell you wouldn...