Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist world, he declared an end to the "era of confrontations," now that the "time has come for an era of negotiations." But the new Administration must "restore the strength of America so that we shall always negotiate from strength and never from weakness." He did not touch on arms control, a major point to be negotiated...
...Convention Hall. So Mailer slipped his .38 caliber under his vest and went down town for the final existential test of wits with the Secret Service. If Mailer was successful, he will have altered the trajectory of history. The nation could be different, somehow, better, more alive, more in touch with its essence, free to choose its fate-if he punched Eric Sevareid in the nose...
...withdrew more and more completely into mystical seclusion, poring over volumes of poetry and developing a passionate interest in that plant life around his suburban Vienna home. His calm perseverance as a composer in the face of ridicule and neglect gave him a saintly aura. To see him touch a single note on the piano, said Swiss Conductor Ernest Ansermet, was to see a man in an act of devotion...
...among expected visitors will be the McDonnell Douglas 188, a stubby, banana-shaped ship with outsized wings. Beginning next month, it will touch down at La Guardia's STOL runway between hops to landing strips set aside in Boston and Washington for extensive testing in the crowded northeast air corridor...
...novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter was half poetry, and like most poetry, it suffers in translation. Yet, though much of the sentiment drips into sentimentality, Arkin is triumphant as an Everyman isolated from the humanity he can reach but not touch. With galvanic, Chaplinesque gestures, he makes his inarticulate mouth seem to shout his agonies; when he "talks" to himself, he speaks sign language with a weary, resigned accent that makes his fingers seem to sigh...