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...most interesting candidate in the senate race and the one with the least chance of electoral success is the arch-liberal Hughes. He runs at a time when a dark horse stands a brilliant chance for victory, but unfortunately a darker horse than he could not be found...
...mouth. Barth is a Calvinist, but not a gloomy one; at home he speaks kindly to large dogs and small children (in guttural Swiss-German), displays a mellow, Dutch-uncle patience with puzzled students. In conversation Barth is full of wisecracks-some pleasantly pixy, some theologian-arch. Once, asked by a stranger on the trolley car if he knew the great Karl Barth, he replied: "Know him? I shave him every morning...
...Department of Architectural Sciences claims most of the nicknames: Arch Sci 20-21, Visual Composition, "Chaos and Confusion"; Arch Sci 105, The Development of Landscape Architecture, "Lawnmowers and Hedge Cutters"; Arch Sci 110, Introduction to Urban Planning, "Huts and Ruts"; and Arch Sci 124, Introduction to Design in the Visual Arts, "Spots and Dots" (a name often used for Fine Arts 171, Twentieth Century Painting...
...loud protest. She was not alone. Leander Perez, influential political boss of Plaquemines Parish and also a Catholic, suggested reprisals against the clergy: "Cut off their water. Quit giving them money to feed their fat bellies." And State Representative Rodney Buras of New Orleans proclaimed that he would fight Arch, bishop Rummel's demand for desegregation "even to the extreme of being excommunicated...
...central problem of the thirties: the failure of most people to distinguish between the real, the crucial German problem, and the inflated (or otherwise distorted) picture of it. No doubt Hitler's demands were unreasonable; but they reflected the interests of a strong, legitimate Power, run by an arch-opportunist dealing with short-sighted...