Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...provide a valuable service to a fairly large number of people," says Postolos. "I know we touch a lot of people who drop down or call or participate or interview to be on the staff. I feel like we have a significant impact on at least how some of those people interact with other people...
...only problem with this approach is that it requires a light touch. See Alan Cox's wonderful Repo Man or Scorsese's street-smart After Hours for effortless demonstrations of a delicate hand. But Subway, with its insistent apathy and learn-while-you're-luny preachiness, is as subtle in the end as a Punch and Judy pugil stick...
Putting clueless freshmen in touch with less-clueless upperclassmen is a desirable end. It certainly justifies the risk of an occasionally more energetic tough consented to by both parties. After all, some prefects are only a few months older than their assignees. Prefects do not give grades, aren't particularly desirable as writers of letters of recommendation, and can have little direct influence on one's life after Harvard...
When a deaf woman answered the phone, "I figured it wasn't the right person," he says. Finally he tried calling the last David Cohen who lived off campus. He couldn't get in touch with him, so he brought the troublesome envelope to his house and left it there, and hasn't heard anything of it since...
...interesting to note that not once in the first part did Crisp touch upon homosexuality. In the second half, however, this was also the subject of many questions. It was also the topic to which he responded with sensitivity rather than his habitual wit. Only at this point did he became more of a real person and less of a parody of himself...