Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even if we all get in touch with our feelings and tap our feet to our biorhythms, we still can't cope. While pop psychological and sociological analyses may provide short-term solutions to the problems posed by life in American society, they don't really get to the roots of those problems. Indeed, as Christopher Lasch argues in Haven in a Heartless World, the new nostrums are more symptomatic than curative of America's psychological malaise...
...felt uncomfortable when he was being stared at. When fashions changed, he grew his hair long and carefully combed it over the area where the ear was missing. After moving to San Francisco, he became a Brent patient and is already delighted with the result of his surgery, although touch-up work remains to be done. Kaplan has cut his hair short again, and when friends comment on his new ear, he corrects them: "You're looking at a piece...
...fall of his temperature, the coughs, the catarrhs, the betrayals in his body, the bats in his soul. "The phantoms of the night," he says, "have tracked me down." Earlier: "The physical illness is only an overflow of the spiritual illness." Kafka is both physically and metaphysically in touch with death, as if some thin, tight wire were strung from here to there, and made lovely, disturbing sounds. It is distressing to monitor his illness for so long. One knows not only that Kafka's death must arrive in 1924, but also what will come of his larger presentiments...
...story above. Either an onlooker or the fencer himself will make the tacit assumption that they or their man has won the point. The most dramatic method of assumption is the ripping off of a mask by a fencer who believes he's made the fifth and bout-winning touch...
...ability to re-create what has happened as an image in their brain. And, as local directors Gabor Demjen and Israel Colon explain, when their attention is distracted by a fencer or someone on the sideline, their re-creation can be confused and they are forced to rule no touch...