Word: touched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feeling of restrained emotion pervades each paragraph; the prose is unpoetical in any obvious sense--you can't scan it--but is yet extremely rich, especially in its combinations of sight and touch. Tension mounts to find release in some sensation such as the feel of soft fabric after a description of a memory exercise...
...further poems by Whitbread are successful within their own limitations. "Don Ottavio" is a very tight little tale treated with a light touch and and a shrug--amusing and bemused. "Notices" entertains...
...Touch of the Poet. One of Eugene O'Neill's favorite themes-man's addiction to illusion-reappears in a sprawling but powerful tale of a boozing innkeeper and his crumbling pose as a fine gentleman. With Eric Portman, Helen Hayes...
John U. Munro, who will replace Delmar Leighton as Dean of Harvard College, has been on the firing line long enough to assure an easy transition from the old to the new regimes. Munro's experience as Director of the Financial Aid Office has brought him in close touch with many of the student problems he will now have to meet head-on. It is too early to indulge in predictions about the new Dean's performance, but his background and abilities well qualify him to cope with one of the most trying posts in the University...
...Touch of the Poet. One of Eugene O'Neill's favorite themes-man's addiction to illusion-reappears in a sprawling but powerful tale of a boozing innkeeper and his crumbling pose as a fine gentleman. With Eric Portman, Helen Hayes...