Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...describing, he records their sense of the world, trying to recapture "the trauma of the moment" as they experienced it. In this way, most of The Acid Test dips in and out of the consciousness of Kesey and his freaked-out disciples, and yet also manages to touch on many of the minds of the frightened and threatened in the old America--like the "unhip mama" with "the adrenal shriek: beat-nicks, bums, spades--dope...
...handful of occasions when you and I meet not so many years ago, you seemed a well-meaning man, but altogether puzzled and remote when confronted with actual undergraduate flesh. It's now evident that you've completely lost touch with the changing spirit and needs of the University. As one, therefore, who is deeply concerned with the future of Harvard and its role in our society, I call upon you to tender your immediate resignation. Alan Rinzler...
...Harvard professors helped to choose the Spanish section, and a student compiled the Italian books, giving the collection a connoisseur's touch. Italian books, in particular, are scarce in the Harvard area. Not even Shoenhof's has a good collection...
...paperwork to become remote and impersonal figures of authority rather than flesh-and-blood leaders. Over the past dozen years, John M. Eckerd, 56, has created a Florida drugstore chain with $100 million a year in sales by taking the opposite approach. Eckerd gives zealous attention to the personal touch. "Employees make or break a business," he says. "They should be treated as individuals and not just parts of a wheel...
Toynbee is a touch old-fashioned to find disciples among today's aggressively youthful revolutionaries. But one point comes through as fresh as angry red fists in Harvard Yard. "A human being will insist on being treated as a person," he writes, "even if the only way he can secure personal attention is to get himself knocked on the head by a policeman's truncheon." The enemy, in Toynbee's view, is not simply the Establishment or the Kremlin or the Pentagon but "competitive Individualism, bee-like or antlike Communism, and tribal-minded Nationalism." Such things, Toynbee...