Word: beers
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...recognition that the only thing which insures an excellent Gen Ed program is excellent Gen Ed courses and the only thing which insures excellent courses is excellent teachers. When all is said, there is really no doubt that in the enthusiasm of men like George Wald and Sam Beer is all that is good with Gen Ed today...
Heckling Colonel. The top Democrat in Germany, Businessman John Ryan, last week invaded Munich's annual Oktoberfest and, surrounded by eight U.S. students brandishing Johnson's picture, delivered a rousing get-out-the-vote speech in front of a tent advertising Löwenbräu beer. He was repeatedly interrupted by a Goldwater heckler in the front row who, Ryan snorts, "must have been a colonel." The Johnson organization in Britain is the largest in Europe, and, with such guest speakers as Actors Anthony Quinn and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Comedian Victor Borge and Novelist Eugene Burdick...
...presidential trip is considered on duty at all times. Such agents are forbidden to drink beer, wine or liquor. But the Commission says: "After the President had retired to his hotel, nine agents who were off duty went to the nearby Fort Worth Press Club at midnight or slightly thereafter, expecting to obtain food; they had had little opportunity to eat during the day. No food was available at the Press Club. All of the agents stayed for a drink of beer, or in several cases, a mixed drink. According to their affidavits, the drinking in no case amounted...
...Iron Curtain, lean and paranoid to the east. Earlier conquerors-the Romans, the armies of Gustavus Adolphus in the Thirty Years' War, the Napoleonic French-dropped their Iron Curtains between north and south. Over the centuries there developed a dour, methodical, Protestant North, and an affable, beer-drinking, Catholic South. The East-West split, Leonhardt argues, has cut this historical Germany into quarters and generated an "Athens v. Sparta" complex that most Germans believe can only be cured by reunification...
...them was to see their three sons reach "the highest state in life that anyone could achieve"-that of a Gentleman. No one of the brothers quite made it to Gentleman, but two of them did well enough so that the family no longer had to "think small beer of themselves." One became a priest, the other a revenue inspector in the British Civil Service. The youngest, Sean, opted for writing-a decision that his mother never quite forgave...