Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...antics, some in the world gave him a loud raspberry. Paris' tart-tongued France-Soir compares him to "Marx-not Karl, but Harpo." Yet Brazil's common man calls him "messiah," "the savior," "the healer of our ills." As Quadros flogs his nation along his chosen path, other voices can be heard calling him "paranoiac," "autocrat," "dictator." Rio's Governor Carlos Lacerda, formerly a Quadros supporter, now a bitter critic, once termed him "the most changeable, the most mercurial, the most perfidious of all men ever to emerge in Brazil's public affairs...
Since this is an election year in New York (see THE NATION), the teachers got fast action. Mayor Wagner personally visited the school and got more publicity than he bargained for when a rat scurried across his path in the auditorium. Pictured in the papers, this scene encouraged a rash of complaints...
...West German sportswriters, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 85. gave all the credit to the Italian game of boccie and life at his breathtaking, Rhine-commanding villa south of Bonn. "Since 1937," he explained, "I have been living at Rhondorf, where I can only get home by climbing up the path. It is more than 50 steps." Another advantage of the hillside location: the villa - although one of the finest in the whole Rhine Valley - was not appropriated by Occupation officers after World War II, "because," suspects der Alte, "they could not drive up to the door in their cars...
...most important and the most impressive paintings they can find. Today, when art collection has become so widespread a form of investment, the private collector is generally notable for his caution, his collections for their dullness. But many members of the 25th Reunion class have chosen the more adventuresome path of art collection. The rewards of their highly individual pursuits are now on display in three second floor galleries of the Fogg Museum...
...frightened enough to pass, his grades are still likely to fall far below his potential. His confrontation with the CRIMSON or the HDC or the Bick or Widener is likely to open a path of socially acceptable indifference to academic work, to help him form the habits that turn him into what Amherst calls a consistent "under-achiever...