Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Touch & Go. After Harry Truman telephoned him last week, Charlie Wilson slipped back to Washington by private plane, hustled from the airport to confer with Stu Symington. Then he checked in briefly with Secretary Sawyer. The mobilizers and stabilizers hoped he would not disturb their decentralized setup, until it became absolutely necessary to create a super-Office of Defense Mobilization. Said Wilson noncommittally: "I am in an exploratory frame of mind...
Reds and party-liners have a perfect right to refuse to answer questions about their Communist activities-so long as they take advantage of their constitutional privilege not to incriminate themselves. Then the law cannot touch them for contempt. So the Supreme Court ruled last week in an 8-0 decision written by Justice Hugo Black...
Zorn was in despair "when he felt a gentle finger touch his elbow." It was the Golux, "a little man smiling in the moonlight. He wore an indescribable hat, his eyes were wide and astonished, as if everything were happening for the first time, and he had a dark, describable beard...
What does it all mean? "Don't try to understand," the princess tells one of her victims, and Cocteau echoes her in an "explanation" that is not much more enlightening than his movie. Orpheus is no allegory, he says, but simply an attempt to touch entertainingly in film metaphor on a scrambled collection of such themes as free will, inspiration and the poet's preoccupation with death. What the movie does with these themes is as elusive and disjointed as a half-remembered dream...
...transportation facilities this year are as modern as the new store front on Jordan Marsh. That store undoubtedly has the best train exhibit in town, although it doesn't touch F. O. A. Schwarz on the "toy" cars. These 1951 models may actually be toys, but it seemed to me that anyone under nine years old in the way of one of these speeding machines would be running a grave risk of suicide. A sleck, black, compressed air racer, which was also available last year, is capable of enormous speeds and gets up to 75 miles per gallon...