Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...came north, got a place to live in Somerville, started putting together a band, and talked to a few friends who go to Harvard about getting a chance to perform here. His friends, in turn, put him in touch with people in the Coalition for Awareness and Action, who put him and his band up on the steps of Mem Church to get people in the right spirit to begin Monday's march past the River Houses...
...just an innovative gimmick: it adds a crucial element of fun--something that the musical in its original version lacked. A production in the 1950s boasted a book by Lillian Hellman, lyrics Richard Wilbur, and music by Leonard Bernstein. But its cynical, pompous tone was almost totally out of touch with that of Voltaire's novel, a satiric classic that describes how a young innocent named Candide, whose tutor has taught him to believe this "the best of all possible world1," experiences an interminable and hysterical series of disasters that teach him to view life a bit more realistically...
Ernst graduated in 1876 before Tyng began to catch, but he too continued to play for the varsity while attending the Medical School. The tandem successfully teamed up throughout 1877 and 1878, but by 1879 both had lost touch with baseball and had stopped playing...
Although the Fainsod Committee was not charged with responsibility for changing University governing methods, Levin says his service on the committee convinced him of defects in the structure of the Corporation at that time. "The Corporation was a very small group of people--mostly lawyers--who were not in touch with what was going on, but who had complete autonomy," he says. Thomson notes that now the Corporation hears testimony from many different sources--in part because it was forced to confront a different vision of the University, one it hadn't known existed. "There was a very strong feeling...
These organizations generally divide into two types. Many are primarily meeting, counseling and support groups for homosexual lawyers, doctors, businessmen, teachers, whatever. A person calling such a group will be put in touch with other gay males or lesbians with whom he or she can arrange quiet dinners and talks about professional or social problems. The organizations are particularly helpful for older gays who have no desire to patronize bars or discos catering to homosexuals, and whose life-style is far removed from the tight-jeans...