Word: touched
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...others have juggled the two worlds--but not many of them were playing with a foreign policy ball. Madeleine Albright has demonstrated and will hopefully further demonstrate that even in foreign affairs, with all its geopolitics, missiles, terrorism and embargoes, a woman's voice can be heard and her touch felt. And yes, she will be bringing her womanhood with her--for as she said as she bid farewell to past Secretary of State Warren Christopher, "I can only hope that my heels can fill your shoes...
Kleinbaum, the current co-social chair, says Hillel has brought him more in touch with Judaism...
...considered by many to be the pre-eminent scholar of J.S. Bach and the Bach family alive today. "If students really want to experience and learn about the music of Bach," he says, "there is no better way than going to Emmanuel on Sundays. It will put them in touch with another world." Wolff praises Emmanuel for its diligent study of Bach, whom he says paved the path for composers all the way through the modern age. "Bach showed us that you can write in all 24 keys and mold music that is technically perfect and expressive so that...
...classic afternoon's adventure for young suburbanites, with a touch--but no more--of peril. In Wilmette, Winnetka, Glencoe and Kenilworth, the posh white suburbs served by New Trier, drug use isn't associated with gang violence, crack houses, addiction or dead-end despair. Getting high has become almost boringly conventional. Drew (names and some other identifying features have been changed), a regular at the Corner, has even kicked around the notion of buying "New Trier Smoking Club" jackets with his friends and awarding mock varsity letters...
Dancin' and singin' in the streets? Terrific. Just as it has been since Gene Kelly and friends pioneered the idea. A production number in a glamorous jewelry store--all sinuous chorus kids, wowing us with their giddy athleticism? Absolutely. It puts us in touch with the long-lost silliness of movie musicals. A romantic pas de deux on the banks of the Seine? Yes. And could we have seconds on that...