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...when the Republican Party steering committee, still smarting from the Goldwater "extremism in the defense of liberty" fiasco, condemned Welch and his group. Welch had offended nearly everyone by then, especially with his call for complete and unilateral American withdrawal from Vietnam in 1965. By Welch's peculiar reasoning, Communists were running both sides of the war, and the United States was paying for it. A last gasp of attention came in the late '60s, as a result of a campaign more renowned for its slogan than its effect, "Support Your Local Police...
...procession crept along the traffic-snarled Las Americas Expressway, the candidate began booming out "Buenos días" from the open bus door to motorists and pedestrians along the way. Some waved and some yelled back, but a good many just stared, startled by this manifestation of that peculiar ritual, the American presidential campaign...
...congestion, is the animating principle of O'Donnell's work: he is a trader in visual surprises who can set his big, fractured geometrical forms, the loops and slices and incomplete circles of color, moving with splendid élan. A work like Palaestra, 1979, shows his peculiar talent for keeping up a lively debate between edge and surface in the reactions between the rhythmical curves of the design and the slices made into the canvas by its wooden framing battens. Squiggling, spinning, breaking off into ribbons and trellis-like crisscrossing, O'Donnell's shapes are never...
...think we are headed for a war," the former envoy to Peking said, but added that Soviet Premier Leonid I. Breznhev "has a peculiar way of showing he wants detente...
...women in the Faculty "forces one to consider that there may be some element of sex discrimination in tenure decisions," Alison Dundes '81, president of RUS, said yesterday. The absence of tenured women in the History Department, when women hold 20 per cent of the PhDs in history is "peculiar," she added...