Word: archly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quarry, by Friedrich Duerrenmatt. A sick old detective trapped in a sanitarium run by an arch sadist-each of them the other's quarry-provides the author of The Visit with a new set of grotesque mouthpieces for his macabre view of life...
...Life). At his best, when dealing with small boys, Armenian Americans, and poets without portfolio, he has won himself a modest but lasting place in our literature; at his worst, whenever he gets involved in Issues or Ideas (both with capital I's), he falls flatter than Bahgh-arch, the Armenian flat bread. There is a third capitalized I that has proved fatal to Saroyan: the plain, unsimple I of his boundless...
...Congressional District, liberals are about as popular as the cottonmouths that abound in the swamps about Shreveport. Last week, in a special election to fill the seat of Democratic Representative Overton Brooks, who died Sept. 16, the voters of the Fourth had just the sort of choice they liked: arch-Conservative Democrat Joe D. Waggonner Jr., 43, was pitted against arch-Conservative Republican Charlton H. Lyons, 67. When the votes were counted, Waggonner was the winner -by 33,846 votes to 28,275, a remarkably narrow margin for a Democratic congressional candidate in Louisiana...
Heretofore, the educational authorities of the city colleges abused their freedom to disapprove. This fall, Hunter College refused to rent its auditorium to the arch-conservative National Review; Brooklyn college delayed a speech by Mark Lane, a New York State Assemblyman who was indicted in Mississippi for his actions as a Freedom Rider; and Queens College revoked student invitations to Malcolm X, leader of the Black Muslims, and to Benjamin Davis, secretary of the U.S. Communist Party. (The ban on Davis provoked the discredited October 26 ruling...
...Council (probably in 1962) is showing a new friendliness toward Eastern Orthodoxy and toward its "separated brethren," the Protestants. For the first time, the Vatican has sent official observers to an Assembly of the World Council. Within the past year, the Pope has received precedent-breaking visits from the Arch bishop of Canterbury and the Presiding Bishop of the U.S. Protestant Episcopal Church. In the U.S., a hew era of mutual confidence between Catholics and Protestants is symbolized by the election of the first Catholic President...