Word: birchings
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...latest Marx brothers festival. In a hundred Victorian parlors like the Merriwethers', attractive parents and children play recorders and sing lieder or Cole Porter. Leather editions on subjects like Provencal poetry decorate the walls. Pedigreed dogs, knowledgeably named in Russian or even Japanese, bunk into a birch-log fire. There is a golden glow of "we": husbands and wives, colleagues, the chosen circles at dinner parties off Brattle Street, the community of the faculty club. Must Dr. Merriwether, who teaches introductory physiology, give up all this Good Life for his Cynthia, "golden-haired but almost Indian dark, slimly full...
President Nixon's promises did not satisfy Sen. Adlai Stevenson (D-III.), and Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), sponsors of separate bills providing for a court appointed special prosecutor...
...amendment which will guide the selection of the new vice president was first proposed by Senator Birch Bayh Jr. (D-Ind.) in December 1963, less than a month after the Kennedy assassination. The two men next in line to succeed Johnson, who had been stricken with a heart attack while majority leader in the Senate, were John McCormack and Carl Hayden, both of whom were over 80 years old at the time...
...theaters like the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center or, worse still, Edward Durrell Stone's monstrous box of upholstered Mussolini at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. But that is not saying a great deal. The design, with its pleats of white birch, hanging plastic doughnuts and faired-in lights, is weirdly Art Deco: it could be the set for a lavish Buck Rogers movie from the '30s-"Desist, Zorka, or you will destroy the Intergalactic Confederacy...
...served; if you are not in the mood for a hot dog, order the pastrami on a bun. The side dishes at Zum Zum beef up what might otherwise be a skimpy meal. Light and dark beer is served, but if you are on the wagon Zum Zum's birch beer will do the trick...