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...nose. His conservative suits are usually rumpled and flecked with tobacco from the pipe that seldom is out of his mouth. Barth is a Calvinist, but not a gloomy one; at home he speaks kindly to large dogs and small children (in guttural Swiss-German), displays a mellow, Dutch-uncle patience with puzzled students. In conversation Barth is full of wisecracks-some pleasantly pixy, some theologian-arch. Once, asked by a stranger on the trolley car if he knew the great Karl Barth, he replied: "Know him? I shave him every morning...
...great Secretaries of State,'' Acheson hailed his "beloved chief" as "a Yale man in every sense of the word,'' reminisced admiringly that "in the Truman Administration you often got shot in the front but never in the back." Summed up Acheson midway in the mellow proceedings: "Life bubbles out of this man like the spring of eternal youth. He is charged as White Rock never...
...slowly and painfully by water jets and scraping tools inserted through the cracks. Then the outside surface was brushed, baked in an oven and treated to cure blisters and a surface condition that Greek archaeologists call "bronze tuberculosis." At last the kouros acquired a patina almost as soft and mellow as the one that first attracted Connoisseur Sulla, and the young man looks much as he did when he stood in some ancient temple. His grace and balance, his strength mixed with beauty, give the ideals of the Greeks one more victory over time...
...Majesty's censorious Lord Chamberlain, the Earl of Scarbrough. Though one member of the show's unholy quartet sourly reflected that "if we had wounded the Establishment as much as we intended, the Queen's advisers would not have let her come," a more mellow colleague took comfort in the fact that not a line had been cut from the hard-hitting script in deference to the Queen's presence. Said he: "We thought the best thing to do was to ignore her-in the politest possible way, of course...
Alternately fresh, brash and mellow statements by a trumpeter whose playing is full of oddball humor, off-center insinuations, and piquant flurries. Such numbers as Blue Waltz and La Rive Gauche give him a fine chance to stretch his ideas...