Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many undergraduates who live in the Houses confess that they'd move off campus if it weren't for their laziness or worries about losing contact with the Harvard community. (Mayer recognizes this problem of losing touch and says that his primary responsibility as master is "to create a sense of community for students who don't live on campus and to make myself accessible to them.") Mayer doesn't kid around when it comes to his obligations to Dudley residents. (Eight hours after he delivered a speech to the United Nations World Food Conference on Hunger in Geneva...
...National Archives. The trouble was that the White House had never got around to donating the papers formally, and Congress had passed a law prohibiting tax deductions for that kind of gift made after July 25, 1969. Nevertheless, DeMarco, who was Nixon's tax attorney, got in touch with Newman, a well-known appraiser of historical papers, in late March and asked him to select papers for deeding to the U.S. in a hurry...
...rocket attack. The Chinese-built 107-mm. missiles are wobbly, unguided weapons at best, which the insurgents fire from metal tubes propped up by two sticks or the fork of a small tree. They are a barbarous form of warfare, because when they hit the ground or touch a treetop they turn into thousands of jagged, 2-in. shrapnel fragments. Innocent women and children going about their daily chores seem to be their most common victims...
...shut mind, Shawn's has been one that some times remains too charitably open. The Greening of America, with its pot-scent ed praise of youth (who in turn greeted the book with the immortal tribute "Oh, wow!"), made many readers wonder if the magazine had suffered a touch of sclerosis. The frontispiece, "Talk of the Town," turned suddenly from boutique prattle to sometimes perceptive, some times ponderous essays about Nixon, Watergate, Cambodia, Agnew or poli tics in general. The New Yorker's sol emn discovery of causes was often over bearing and relentless. Indeed, Critic Philip Nobile...
While the year-rounders like David, Sandy, Pete, Jimmy and Louise miss a great deal--they are shut off from the outside world and are plagued by a seasonal economy--they also gain something by their stubborn refusal to leave. They remain in touch with the changing sea and the moody weather of the Outer Cape, closer to nature than the city-dweller. There is time for reflection and thought, for walking and reading, for watching the spring finally appear...