Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...secluded enclave on a quiet residential street four or five blocks from the Science Center, Schama is dressed in stylish New Wave clothes, a fashionable dress leather jacket draped over the back of his chair. His cultured British accent adding, at least to an American ear, an extra touch of grace to his already eloquent speech, Schama speaks of rock music with the same passion with which he discusses academics...
...politics; he was reared in the very similar town of Danville, Ill., seat of the legendary Speaker of the House Joe Cannon. Says Boyce: "Politics aside, I could understand why those who knew Helms as a youth still speak of him with a pride that is only a touch vicarious. Conservatism is deeply rooted in towns like Monroe. For Helms to be other than he is would be to renounce his heritage...
Adds another retired general, Svyatoslav Kozlov: "In a nuclear war, there can't be a gentlemen's agreement whereby one side says to the other, 'O.K., you hit only our rockets, and we won't touch anything but military targets on your side.' When the war actually starts, it will proceed by its own momentum. If one side is attacked, it'll hit back with everything it has." In effect, these Soviet spokesmen are re-endorsing the concept of mutual assured destruction that Schlesinger, Brown and others have abandoned...
...when the uptight are continually exhorted to let it all hang out and be in touch with their feelings, it is curious that no one calls anyone else a Byzantine logothete any more. That is what Teddy Roosevelt called Woodrow Wilson; and, while a Byzantine logothete is not the worst thing you can say about someone-it means a glorified accountant-it does suggest a certain largesse of contempt that is missing from modern life. A government official is fired from a high post and he cites "personal differences" with his superior. An actress is savaged in a gossip column...
...having outlived even his Smith-Corona, Bishop lives contentedly in Florida. "I had a glassy, superficial style and a seasoned touch for saying a lot in a few words," he says of his life's work. He is too modest. Bishop had strong legs, a sharp eye and, perhaps his greatest gift, a keen appreciation for fate's small amusements. The day Jim Bishop dies, keep an eye on the altar boy. -By Donald Morrison