Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...City Hospital obstetrician, but as a condemnation of a legal process that brought this case into a courtroom and that allowed a jury to consider it. The shocking forcefulness of the jurors in convicting Edelin and the racist and prejudiced nature of their judgment only adds a final virulent touch to a prosecution that was from the beginning ugly...
...voters now are really much tougher in evaluating appearances. The American people have heard a lot of promises that just weren't delivered on. They are not cynical; they are skeptical. They are leary of the guy who comes in promising everything and who has the magic touch. With big crowds, charisma can be effective. But when voters sit down to decide, they want to know whether a candidate has real answers. That is why the Democrats are in a position where, having won by wide margins, they must deliver some programs. People are really looking for answers...
...economics professors, Russian-born Wassily Leontief, 68, has announced that, after 44 years on the faculty, he will resign from Harvard this summer to teach at New York University. His reasons for departing: the department's curriculum is "too narrow" and theoretical, and the senior faculty has lost touch with the students...
...destroys its very purpose Racism is not an issue of "nuts and bolts," as Mr. Horsey says, it is an intensely political issue which transcends the boundaries and agencies of the American political system (i.e., election, school committees legislation, etc.). That is why any confrontation with racism must inevitably touch upon the question of revolution--the attempt to bring about a fundamental change in the political (and economic) system is which racism plays such an important part...
Fred Fisher evened the match at 2-2, employing a soft touch to take Princeton's Dave Bottgar in five games, but that would be the end of the Crimson scoring although many matches were very close...