Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent opinion poll of Harvard alumni showed that contributions increase when the University makes efforts to keep in touch with its graduates, but everyone involved with the alumni colleges seems to feel that fundraising is none of their business. Downey, Shultz and Kimball emphasize their lack of interest in increasing donations...
This is the slow time of year for Thomas Crooks: the director of the Summer School does the great bulk of his work during the regular academic year and doesn't have much to do during the summer. So he keeps a loose eye on things, stays in touch with the directors of his various subdivisions, and performs ceremonial functions--attending openings, representing the Summer School at official functions, and so on. After 20 years as a Harvard administrator and 15 as director of the Summer School it all begins to come easily, to develop into a series of comfortable...
...been enshrouded by the myths of textbooks and the mists of hagiology. The most elusive figure in that gentlemen's club of revolutionaries was Thomas Jefferson. Henry Adams wrote that every other American statesman could be portrayed with "a few broad strokes of the brush," but Jefferson "only touch by touch with a fine pencil, and the perfection of the likeness depended upon shifting and uncertain flickers of semitransparent shadows." Many biographers have attempted to draw that chiaroscuro character, most recently Fawn Brodie in her Thomas Jefferson, an Intimate Biography. The result has been an overemphasis of the difficult...
...mother, the kindly but officious father. Emily's childhood was one of roles, of commands and prohibitions, far closer to our time than to the world of the novel. The morality of our age seems senseless in contrast to the narrator's present: Emily's mother's "don't touch," her anger at the "dirty little girl" seems ridiculous when juxtaposed against a world where four-year-olds live underground, eating rats, and sometimes people. Yet the older world, with its roles and facades, seems idyllic, secure and inviolable...
...classic absent-minded professor, a philosopher so immersed in his studies that he often seemed to lose touch with life around him. At social gatherings, he would stand alone talking silently to himself, moving his lips and smiling-although, said a friend, if someone interrupted his reverie, "he immediately began a harangue." As a classroom lecturer, he would stutter and stammer for at least a quarter of an hour before hitting his oratorical stride. Contemporaries loved to talk about the night that he got out of bed absorbed in some theory and wandered 15 miles in his dressing gown before...