Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those Kennedy clan touch-football sessions were wild and woolly for their day. But the antics at Hickory Hill and Hyannisport now seem like a girls' fieldhockey jamboree compared with the mayhem on the greensward at Gracie Mansion when New York Mayor John Lindsay and his pals take the field. After the latest game, one aide had landed in the hospital with a broken hand and two others were hobbling around with badly swollen shins. And Hizzoner unscathed. In fact, despite striking teachers and recalcitrant policemen he was dressed up for a night out on the town with...
...famed baby doctor and himself the father of three. "Children get enough instruction in school," he says. "We're trying to make the world where a child grows up understandable to him - that part of the world you have to reach out with your hand and touch to really know about...
...having TV will give the kids a feeling of knowing what everyone else knows." Similarly, Dr. Richard Kenyon, an official of the American Chemical Society in Washington, reclaimed his set after two years' banishment. "If you are without it these days, you are a little too out of touch with the stream of modern life," he says. Abe Wollock, an associate professor of theater arts at U.C.L.A., insists that TV for the most part is scarcely an adult intellectual challenge. But he is also persuaded that "wisdom and knowledge have always come through the visual sense. When...
Reminiscent in style of the good old Warner Bros, crime films of the '40s, Bullitt is given a distinct touch of Now by Director Peter Yates. The movie is full of gritty city details and has a streaking pace that would leave Jim Ryun winded. As the beleaguered cop, McQueen is surprisingly subtle, mixing his customary hip swagger with an urban high-strung sensibility; like Oscar in The Odd Couple, he is so tense he has clenched hair...
...which no deceitful divinity has traced the signs of hope or redemption. Between this sky and the faces turned toward it there is nothing on which to hang a mythology, a literature, an ethic, or a religion-only stones, flesh, stars, and those truths the hand can touch." However, Camus' quest for a lucid, objective ethic for man never allowed him more than a temporary relief in the stones, flesh and stars of touchable truths...