Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years the Peking regime, which is vitriolic and unpredictable in its self-imposed isolation, will theoretically be able to hit the U.S. with nuclear missiles. Although the U.S. could destroy China as a modern society even more easily than it could the Soviet Union, a touch of yellow-menace fever has set in. "The Chinese are different," argues one general. "They have no regard for human life. Imagine if the Red Guards had got their hands on a couple of ICBMs!" At the same time, the Russians resisted Lyndon Johnson's initial attempts to open negotiations aimed at checking...
...argues, the best proverbs easily transcend ethnic and geographical barriers. They deal in the fundamental stuff of life: love and war, birth and death, sickness and health, work and play. Like the human mind itself, they seek the core meaning of things and the satisfying symmetry of antithesis. They touch the taproots of the mind without requiring the service of the intellect...
Died. John Boles, 73, robust baritone who became one of the first matinee idols of the talkies when his booming voice reverberated across the dunes in The Desert Song (1929), later starred in the Broadway musical smash One Touch of Venus (1943); of a heart attack; in San Angelo, Texas...
Still, the equipment can transcend its demanding and intimidating nature. In a way, it's beautiful: the ordered levers on the light board which make light and darkness respond to to touch of a finger, a button that makes part of the stage go up and down...
PRODUCER Jenny Tarlin said, "It's sort of like having a baby. You can see it and touch it. We're at Harvard at a time when all progress is in a very abstract sense; what you do in theatre is much more tangible. I like to stay close to earth...