Word: touched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wide-ranging sampler of one of the most imaginative jazz pianists going, with selections ranging from the strutting, heavily accented No Moon at All to a feather-soft brush-over of Rodgers' and Hart's Spring Is Here. The whole is marked by a lively, note-clear touch and a beat that shifts and slides with the mood...
...made On the Waterfront and Baby Doll and has directed three of Tennessee Williams' plays. Unhappily Kazan does not seem to know the first thing about a satiric operation. As Lady Mary Wortley Montagu explained the technique: "Satire should, like a polished razor keen/ Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen." She also described Kazan's method: "Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews;/ The rage, but not the talent, to abuse...
...Republicans fretted and fumed about their party's budget split, a Democrat with a wedge stayed behind the scenes, prying and jimmying for hours on end with the sharpest touch in politics. He was Texas' Lyndon Baines Johnson, 48, majority leader of the U.S. Senate, who has been so successful in exploiting G.O.P. troubles that he has almost hidden his own party's more basic division...
...Republican split. Second, the USIA's shrill critics in press and Congress had managed to spread the impression that USIA was an international boondoggle. Lyndon could therefore whack safely at USIA to prove that the Democrats are all for economy. Finally-and here came the perfect touch-Johnson came up with the idea of handing over to the State Department (which the House had cut by $47 million) nearly all of the $16 million lopped off the USIA requests. That would prove that Johnson and his Democrats had the country's best interests at heart...
Burke said his office has made plans to help students secure positions on the work crews despite the complicated procedure of hiring which prevails in eastern Massachusetts. In this area, the unions, not the companies, do the hiring, but the Burke emphasized that he had been in touch with Michael Taralo, an official of the Construction and General Laborers Union, AF of L-CIO, and that Taralo assured him openings, would probably be plentiful...