Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bypass graft at a famous U.S. mainland center. Results were unsatisfactory. Barely surviving a third attack a year ago, he was referred to Mamiya, who put in seven bypasses. At 56, Buchwach now works with "front page" drive and even feels good enough to play touch football with his youngsters...
Harvard did not return empty-handed from Princeton, where the tourney was held, as Sukie Magraw '78 won the Ivy League Women's Singles title. "She's much better than any other woman in the league--no one can touch her," Maskin says of Magraw. She is the only female good enough to play on one of the all-male teams in the league...
...quiet and sometimes fascinating empathy for its subject, viewing the battle maps as they looked to the Führer in his dank bunkers with their mosquitoes and their fanged names-"Werewolf," "Wolfs Lair." Irving describes Hitler's medications and mashed-apple breakfasts, and offers a little touch of comedy when a hapless secretary blunders into a war conference wearing shorts and carrying a tennis racquet...
Worthy is not very optimistic about today's world. "I think America is out of touch with deprived people in emotional, physical, and psychological senses. Eventually these people will insist that their needs be met, which will no doubt lead to violence. I have no faith in an economic system based on individual selfishness and stomping on people in order to get ahead,' he says...
Ullmann achieves the alchemy of a fine actress with this dross. Under her magnetic touch, her commanding presence, her lustrous eyes, the base metal of O'Neill's drudgery seems, at times, to glisten. She is aided by the direction of José Quintero, who has a hand-in-glove affinity with all the works of O'Neill. Unfortunately, in this particular instance he is reduced to the condition of a Boy Scout trying to strike fire by rubbing one stick. T.E. Kalem