Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sunless. A very light, raw rain began to wash over Yale's gray stone. I walked down Broadway, the slightly sleezier, more tightly jammed Mass. Ave. of New Haven. Down Elm Street to the Old Campus where the freshmen live and where several coed games of frisbee and touch football dotted the quad. All over the campus there was something giddy in the air--like a giant joke that everyone was in on. Lots of smiling went on. People smiled at each other on the street and said hello for no reason. One ecstatic sophomore stopped me in front...
Abel is a good advertisement. For nine years he ran a network of KGB spies in the U.S. so skillfully that, when he was finally caught, CIA Director Allen Dulles wistfully observed: "I wish we had three or four like him inside Moscow right now." Abel kept in constant touch with the Kremlin from a studio whose windows, bristling with short wave radio antennas, directly faced the Brooklyn headquarters...
...high school should be examined so that the weak and injury-prone can be weeded out. But the prescription of choice is one the patient is not likely to take. The only reliable way to avoid knee injuries, say the doctors, is to avoid the game. Why not try touch...
...equally important impediment to the effectiveness of the COH is its age. The members are basically out of touch with the present, our present. Once again, parietals provides insight to the workings of the Committee. Not only were its views contrary to the students', but they also conflicted with the general opinion of the faculty. For a guide to the faculty's opposition to the COH's guiding principle of en loco parentis, see John Kenneth Galbraith's letter to the CRIMSON in fall, 1967, when he attacks the idiocy and humiliation of parietals and paternalism in general...
...type of student enjoys having tea with the Master and his wife? How many students feel natural and enjoy themselves when the Master sits at their dining table? A growing number of students do not enjoy such activities and, thus, a growing number of students are completely out of touch with the persons who make the decisions which affect their social lives...