Word: touched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Switch. In a strong, confident voice, Witness Philbrick matter-of-factly explained something that he and the Government had hidden well. "During the entire nine years of my activities," he said, "I have been continuously in touch with the FBI." The Government had reversed, with spectacular success, the old Red tactic of infiltration...
...produced none other than Juan Domingo Perón, six times a doctor honoris causa (Argentina has six universities). Arriving by special train with wife Evita, Peró led a motor caravan to the auditorium, through thousands of cheering descamisados. There, in a 70-minute speech, he managed to touch on Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau and Spinoza. As for himself, he said he was between Hegel and Marx-against both "immoral individualism" and the "insectification of the individual," in favor of what he called "justicialism...
...Films' shoestring production, "A Touch of the Times," was snapped up for world-wide movie and television rights last night by the Madison Pictures Distributing agency, the same outfit that is now handling Symphonies Pastorale...
When Breyer tucks one of the only two existing reels of "A Touch of the Times" in his briefcase and heads for New York in a day or so, the film will start a long and arduous stretch of "conditioning" for the commercial market. It must be reproduced on 16 and 35 mm. sound film, and have the specially composed musical score dubbed in before its professional premiere...
...went on to explain that the film will receive careful distribution. Mainly designed for what Breyer calls "carriage trade" theaters, "A Touch of the Times" will be aimed for America's and Europe's most distinguished movie houses...