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...arch-scribe of Boston journalistic circles did not appear to feel his laurels unduly jeopardized and benignly gave his blessing to his newly acquired if unwilling audience...
...Bughum" is "humbug" sideways. Tell Arch Oboler, whoever he may be, to be more luferac-careful spelled backwards...
Since the Democratic and Republican parties alike contain within their ranks arch-conservatives and arch-liberals, since a Congressman's re-election depends not upon his unswerving support of a party program but upon the satisfaction rendered to his constituents and to pressure groups, and since there is no practicable method of enforcing party discipline in Congress, a Senator or Representative is inclined to vote for local interests rather than for national welfare. Illustrative of this unpleasant truth is the success of the Republican-Southern Democrat coalition, which has pounded the Administration's legislative program into an unrecognizable blob...
...learn the new rules thoroughly you had to go to Paris-and many young U.S. artists did. Last week Manhattan's Whitney Museum (now under the wing of the arch-conservative Metropolitan) honored the native sons who had brought the principles of Paris back to Manhattan, and had made them stick. In an exhibition called "Pioneers of Modern Art in America," it showed the 1908-22 works of Karfiol, Weber, Demuth, Sheeler, Marin, Hartley, and-surprisingly enough-Thomas Hart Benton...
...novels themselves were a mighty mixed lot. Three (King's General, Foxes, Sun) were costume pieces, rich with sex, lacy or unlaced. David the King was an elaborated Bible story. Arch of Triumph was soft love scenes in refugee Paris, hard resistance talk. Brideshead Revisited was Oxonian, Catholic, elegant, epicene...