Word: touched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there he was, all grinning and friendly, holding out his arm generously so people could almost touch him. It was the Beantown's golden boy! He had on a simple green tie, and held one arm around his nice young wife, who sat right up on the back of the seat with him. Someone yelled, "Our next President," and everyone screamed and clapped...
...believes that religion is "the substance of culture and culture is the form of religion." He has long been concerned with the insights of psychiatry; Psychoanalyst Rollo May, leading U.S. exponent of "existential analysis" (TIME, Dec. 29), studied under Tillich at Union Seminary, and continues to keep in close touch with him. He is also keenly interested in modern art, and has written and lectured extensively on how art manifests "ultimate reality...
...pigments: the result is like a shallow bas-relief with muted colors suggestive of the earth's own crust. Tàpies confesses to "struggling" with his materials, then intently observing the outcome: "I am the first spectator before my canvas. I am a normal man. If it touches me, it will touch...
Surrealism requires ideas of some sort, as abstract expressionism does not, and it still helps give weight and variety to Tàpies' now wholly abstract art. He finally abandoned recognizable images because, he explains, "abstraction can touch many springs in the human spirit, whereas realism can touch only...
...could not "lie, bend or sit." So that West could relax a bit between takes, a board was set up for her to lean against. Marlene Dietrich, arriving for a fitting, "quickly peels down, revealing the most beautiful French lingerie I've ever seen, all white, just a touch of lace...