Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accent. "At 1 a.m.?" said Gorey. "Of course." Said Kennedy: "Join me anyway." Gorey did. When he crawled out of bed early next morning, the first person he saw was Bobby, briskly walking his dog Freckles. That exercise was cut short when the tireless candidate joined a game of touch football. "Sometimes," says Gorey wistfully, "he goes to bed early like other mortals...
...have so many sports, girls have so few." Kansas City Riding Instructor Jan Dickerson confirms that 80% of her students are girls. Says she: "Boys think riding is a matter of brute strength. Girls are gratified that they become good riders through developing their skills and fine sense of touch." Adds Carol Metzger, 40, of Portuguese Bend, Calif., whose daughter Katie, 8, rides the family's Welsh pony Blue Jay: "All the boys around here surf, all the girls ride...
...Sadistic Touch. Singing extroverts make popular parents. Victor loved his "cocksparrow" father once, and laconically concedes, "He charmed." But he delivers his prevailing opinion with icy finality "I hated my father." So deeply, in fact, that he had to hate what his father loved: "big men" (that is, those with money), nice "Things" (Father ended up in the "art needlework" business), and Christian Science...
...mean loving Mother. In fact, the Pritchetts were that human catastrophe, a close but unloving family. What they had instead of love was intensity. Thus Grandfather Pritchett, a minister, "looked like a sergeant major who did not drink." He beat his carpets and his sons with "a genial sadistic touch." Pritchett concludes that his own father was partly playing the pass-on-the-pain game. (Authors who have suffered Pritchett's critical thrashings may believe the same...
Crew wasn't the only sport in which Winthrop showed its strength. After jumping off to a slow start in tackle football with a tie for third, the Puritans whipped off firsts in touch football, wrestling combined basketball, and swimming...