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After building up to a monumental state of disorder, Cahalys retains most of the characteristics of an Oriental bazaar, the due rugs and aromatic spices having been replaced by Pepsi-Cola and Kasanoff's Pumpernickel. As in an archaic bookshop, one of the merchants explained, "one of our clients is always finding something valuable. As long as order is maintained, you're always welcome to come in and browse around." Maybe you'll pick yourself up something old and rare-like a bar of soap...
After twitching spasmodically on the shelf where it has been buried for the last eleven years, the motion to streamline the archaic distinction between the College's two Bachelor degrees has once again come alive. The intervening decade has seen the faculty majority of scholars in the classical tradition who so roundly defeated President Conant on the issue in 1935 either fade from the scene altogether or yield to the pressure of what they confess is an inevitable trend. Odds are on the chance that all men now in College may graduate as a Bachelor of Arts, or at least...
...kids enfranchised last year by the new state constitution, the women whom poll taxes had until this election prevented from voting, Editor Ralph MeGill's great Atlanta Constitution and 88 percent of the newspapers of the state, all wanted him. But by a tragic quirk of an archaic elective system, Eugene Talmadge, not James Carmichael, yesterday captured the Democratic nomination for governor of the State of Georgia...
Over the years, most of the Hawthorne irony has worn thin; the Hawthorne moralizing and allegorizing now have the force of a Sunday school sermon; the famed Hawthorne style, once so eloquent and orotund, now seems merely archaic and rhetorical ("My father, wherefore didst thou inflict this miserable doom upon thy child?"). But the dark Hawthorne themes of sin and retribution are still absorbing, and more absorbing yet is the mystery of the obsessed, lonely New Englander turning them over & over in his mind...
...across the officer-enlisted-man gap. Some of them were primarily economic: quarters and travel allowances for all ranks, cumulative furlough time and terminal-leave pay for enlisted men as well as officers. Others were designed to wipe out needless social discriminations, off-duty saluting, the use of such archaic phrases as "officer's ladies and enlisted men's wives...