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Word: touche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Philippines, Tennis Star Tony Roche is relieved of painful "tennis elbow" when an incision is made and three blood clots are apparently removed by the touch of a psychic healer, who knows nothing of surgery or of modern sanitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boom Times on the Psychic Frontier | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

Keep Your Pantheon is the heartwarming tale of a peasant village in Greece. The villagers band together to protect their time-hallowed gods from the murderous touch of the international communist conspiracy. Opens tonight at the club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STAGE | 2/28/1974 | See Source »

Powers said the meet was the team's best performance of the year. Radcliffe's purchase the week before of electric foils used in modern fencing competition made the difference, he said. When the new foils touch the opponents vest, a lighted board registers the score...

Author: By Peter J. Ferrara, | Title: Fencers' Maiden Season Ends As Squad Scores First Wins | 2/27/1974 | See Source »

...values its secrecy as much as its singers, was saying much about what caused the 59-year-old maestro's departure. Certainly a major complaint was that after spending the early fall in New York, Kubelik decamped for Munich to fulfill previously scheduled conducting commitments and kept in touch with New York largely via phone and Telex exchanges. In his absence, things began to come apart, beginning in January with a spectacularly unlucky production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. Swedish Soprano Catarina Ligendza, scheduled for the first performances, canceled, citing illness. In turn, Tenor Jon Vickers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wanted: Full-Time Help | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

Since Bok realizes that Mom Harvard is out of touch with the mainstream of American education, he probably also realizes that if his and Rosovsky's new statement of purposes and aims is really going to have an enormous impact, it'll really have to be revolutionary and not more of this jive curriculum reform. The prexy and the dean have been pretty close-mouthed about what they have in mind for the overhaul of the system, but if you just contemplate the depths of understanding of economics Bok displayed in his talk to the Republicans, it's hard...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Bok's Real Revolution | 2/23/1974 | See Source »

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