Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other side of the Atlantic. It had proven its might in the Spanish-American War and was well on the way to becoming a major world power. To this setting of jingoism and unbridled national pride came George M. Cohan, singer, dancer, and playwright, with more than a touch of the patriotic. Little Johnny Jones, his 1904 musical celebrating the expansive American spirit might find audiences as appreciative today as 80 years ago with the occasion of its revival at the Goodspeed Opera House...
...intriguing document did not touch upon U.S. -Iran relations at all. Titled Israel: Foreign Intelligence and Security Services, the 47-page CIA study, issued in March 1979, offered tidbits about Israeli efforts to blackmail and wiretap U.S. Government employees. For example, Shin Beth, the Israeli counterespionage branch allegedly rigged a fake abortion case against a clerk at the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem in an unsuccessful effort to recruit him, apparently in the early '50s. There are accounts of efforts to bribe Marine guards, and in 1954 a hidden microphone planted by the Israelis was discovered in the U.S. Ambassador...
Much of Levitation presents Ozick in the role of a woman wonder-rabbi spreading paradox and fantasy. She tries too hard. Fantasy requires a softer touch and more control than are found in these stories. Some of Ozick's figurative language is spell-breaking. The phrase "suckled the Nazi boot" seems to have dropped from a punk rock lyric. A "transient mirage" that teases the "medulla oblongata" is not only overwrought but inappropriate for this part of the brain...
Freshman flash Scott Fusco, who had been unable to find his scoring touch in recent weeks, took a pass from Greg Olson (one goal, two assists) his second goal of the night past Big Red netminder Brian Hayward. The shot was first Hayward faced in the overtime, while Big Red forwards had kept Wade Lau (fours saves in OT) hopping and flopping for the first three minutes of the extra period...
...together a guide to colleges that combines the best features of statistical Barrons-type books and "confidential" guides like the Yale Daily News's lively--and lucrative volume, have settled for a dreary set out of criteria. The discussion of Harvard is typically hackneyed and out of touch with the true pulse of undergraduate life. Harvard's main trouble, we learn, is that its undergraduates are "treated to a philosophy of education that might compassionately be described as laissezfaire." It seems that Harvard sometimes hires professors for their scholarship more than for their teaching ability. Worse than that they...