Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...violence was dismaying, but to those who know Boston, it should not have been surprising. The city's image as the Athens of America is a rosy distortion. Boston's renowned academic and cultural institutions seldom touch the lives of most of its 624,900 residents, who are mainly lower-middle class in income and outlook, fiercely loyal to their own ethnic backgrounds and neighborhoods. "Boston is a racist city and always has been," says Boston College Law Professor Leonard Strickman...
...evokes an idyllic time before mass communications and technology. Vol taire and Diderot could keep abreast by keeping in touch with each other and with a few other members of the elite. The vast majority of the people could get the word, eventually and in some manner, from the local tavern keeper or cure. Anyway they did not need to know very much, the Harris the sis seems to suggest, being somehow mystically in touch with nature and eternity. Perhaps Harris' real target is uni versal literacy...
...such original comic novels as The Free-Lance Pallbearers, Yellow Back Radio Broke Down and Mumbo Jumbo, Ishmael Reed displayed powers of camouflage, mimicry and verbal play that drew praise from his peers-though very little cash from his publishers. As a black writer with a ticklish touch, Reed had to sit in the back of the literary omnibus until the white audience tired of having their heads whipped by the Cleavers and Joneses...
...reading this before 9 a.m., the editors of The Crimson are scheduled to take on the heavies of the Bok administration in a game of touch football this morning...
...crowd, telling them about Labrador, Newfoundland, Greenland; and about the people up there, who had nothing. Then they'd tell their families that they were going north with Dr. Grenfell for four, maybe six months, not to worry about them, not to try to get in touch with them. They'd get on board Grenfell's boat and wouldn't be heard from until they returned one day out of the blue...