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...talked, among other things, of Calvin, Mozart and Reinhold Niebuhr ("a great man. but if only he had an inner ear, through which he could hear what Mozart is saying, he wouldn't be so serious all the time"). Barth cheerfully remarked that a Barthian usually smokes a pipe; an orthodox theologian, cigars; and liberals, cigarettes. He offered Religion Editor Elson-a cigar...
...scholar's stoop and his thick, dark-rimmed glasses planted far down on his 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...
...cruel, handsome, scarred face of James Bond does not turn up until more than halfway through Ian Fleming's latest book. They will look in vain for the familiar early scene in the eighth-floor office on Regent's Park where the taciturn M re-lights his pipe and hands Bond his latest assignation with Death and the Maiden...
...Boost the tax on cigarettes-already 46? on average brands selling for 63? a pack-and reduce it on less harmful cigars and pipe tobacco...
...Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960, Pettigrew said. While the two acts, which provided for federal injunctive action where voting discrimination is spotted, have not had spectacular results, "a rise of "a million and a half among Negro voters if this bill is passed would be no pipe dream...