Word: barkers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator Dodd displays the eloquent talents of a circus barker or a random rabble rouser-and on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and to applause. He defines flexibility as compromise, then defines flexibility as "not only without virtue," but as a vice. Not since the Spanish Inquisition has compromise been so perniciously attacked...
...clock: For those who want to study about an English king who lost his head, about Puritans and bawds, Professor Jordan recreates the happy days of the Stuarts in History 140b in Longfellow Alumnae Room. Along slightly different lines, Professor Barker from the University of Virginia discourses on the philosophy of science (Philosophy 149) in Emerson...
Ruse in the Night. In Seattle, when a ringing telephone roused Darwin Barker, and a shadowy figure at the foot of his bed said, "Go answer the phone," Darwin hurried off obediently to see who was calling, went back to his bedroom to discover that his trousers, his wallet and the intruder were gone...
...Barker Had Santayana Grant...
...Barker studied at the University several years ago under a fellowship established by the late George Santayana, providing funds for one student each year to pursue philosophy studies. "He wrote a major portion of his book under this fellowship," Firth noted...