Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...goes pretty much by what Mr. Bate has done. They are constantly in touch," said Penny P. Merliss, a teaching fellow for the course...
...course, Western religion has taught the same doctrine for millenia, but in recent decades has fallen into disuse while religious doctrines imported from the East have been all the rage. Perhaps that is because western religion has lost touch with its mystical roots and its spiritual bases. It became established, easy, mundane, and could not provide the actual enervating, uplifiting experiences we poor sinners need to get through life...
...James Schlesinger as the answer as Energy Secretary. He just hasn't got the touch for Congress, and I think he has reached his limitation. Schlesinger has given us the cosmetics of an energy plan. Somebody has got to tell Schlesinger, "All right, you've got your 55-mile-an-hour speed limit, you've got your natural gas bill-that's about all you've got, but no production anywhere, no new resources that are coming in." You show me an energy czar who is not going to plan for production...
...rest of American practice. While the nation may be just returning to some formality, Washington never really abandoned it. Says Betty Beale. Washington Star society columnist since 1945: "We've always been a long-evening-dress kind of town." Jimmy Carter is bringing blue jeans and an occasional touch of country to Washington, but the Government and diplomatic corps have never mothballed their dinner jackets. Still, the abrasions of sexual politics are a distinctly new development in high Government circles. Patricia Harris, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, remarks pointedly: "The President doesn't kiss the male Cabinet members when...
...Wolfe, a novel that Leonard and Virginia Woolf recognized as a minor masterpiece when he submitted it to their Hogarth Press. For half a century, biographies, essays, librettos, novels and poems fell from his prolific pen; Plomer had no typewriter. "Machines do not like me," he explained. "When I touch them they tend to break down, get jammed, catch fire, or blow...