Word: birching
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...executive branch. Yet if during the '60s Goldwater has symbolized Republicanism's right frontier and Rockefeller its left, Nixon falls well between. On several of the big emotional issues defined in liberal-conservative terms, Nixon has fallen on the liberal side. He was denouncing the John Birch Society and right-wing extremism in California before it became fashionable for Republicans to do so. He supported the 1964 and 1965 civil rights bills and the nuclear test-ban treaty although Goldwater opposed them...
...Autumn on the Hudson River, now in the National Gallery, was completed in 1860, while the artist was living in London, and commemorated a view near West Point overlooking Storm King Mountain. The panorama includes hunters, grazing sheep, and sailboats, but its real subject is the vivid plumage of birch, sugar maple, hemlock and scarlet oak. A century later, Cropsey's portrayal is still fresh and unspoiled, a continuing celebration of the season when, as Thoreau said, "every tree is a living liberty pole, on which a thousand bright flags are flying...
Shrout, along with Pete Adams, team captain Pete Alter and backstroker Al Birch, will be swimming in his last dual meet for Harvard. Shrout was at his best in his freshman year. His fastest times in the 50, 100, and 200-yard freestyle events and in the 200-yard Individual Medley were all set then...
...other senior who will be ending his career today is backstroker Al Birch. Backstroke has been Harvard's weakest event ever since 1962 when Bob Kauffmann left, but this year was a little more encouraging. Birch, like Adams, had the ability to produce under pressure. Against Army, he won his event to keep Crimson hopes alive, and against Princeton his surprising second foiled a Tiger attempt to take the lead. In both meets he swam over his head to keep the team's chances alive...
Hominy Homily. Wallace demonstrated that his appeal does not stop with the blue-collar workers usually linked to his campaign. During his two-day tour of Pennsylvania's industrial heartland, his audience appeared to be largely lower-middle-class suburbanites. Also, a few well-dressed men sporting John Birch Society pins trailed him everywhere. After George finished a hominy-and-homily speech in his best backwoods drawl, one Pennsylvania supporter boomed: "Wallace is a new Messiah...