Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ohio-which gave all the prizes in a major art competition to representational, nonabstract works; see ART, The Personal Touch...
...read the Education section, which had to do with speeches to various graduating classes by the heads of Harvard, M.I.T. and Princeton, and my feelings on finishing were those of dismay, disillusionment, disappointment and disgust, with a touch of nausea...
Aura of Respect. Only eight years older than Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson seems to belong to a different generation and a different world. He still has an in eradicable touch of Texas backlands about him. When he is trying to persuade or cajole somebody, as he often is, he grabs an arm or shoulder in a bruising grip, and a hint of the carnival snake-oil seller shows in his voice. His fellow Senators joke about the lavish vanity of his tailoring and his baronial Senate office?but they respect him, too. Last June the non-partisan Congressional Quarterly polled...
...only a matter of days before all the Kennedys were doing what comes naturally in all their parlors all over the U.S. And when Jack got into politics, the entire clan plunged in with him as quickly as they would join a family game of charades or touch football...
...from the presidential campaign. "Our disagreement on policy is total," says Jack. "We never discuss it. There is no use, because we can't agree." But Joe Kennedy is not so far out of the campaign as Jack would like people to believe. He is in almost daily touch with one or the other of the campaigning Kennedys, talks with an authoritative air to friends. ("Not for chalk, money or marbles will we take second place. Nobody's going to make a deal with us in a back room somewhere for second place on the ticket...