Word: archly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tucked beneath the bluffs along the Mississippi on its Illinois shore, East St. Louis (pop. 80,000) is a squalid reach of crumbling brick buildings, battered frame shacks and sleazy taverns, redeemed only by a view of St. Louis' soaring Gateway Arch across the river. Poverty workers estimate that an appalling 65% of East St. Louis' housing is substandard; a full 21% of the work force is unemployed; nearly a third of the city's families-55%-60% of them Negroes-are on some form of relief. Fine kindling for riot, and last week Firebrand...
...shroud." The past, in this case, was personified by John Bell Williams, 48, who last week won the Democratic primary runoff, thus virtually assuring his election in November as Mississippi's next Governor. By 362,300 votes to 304,200, Williams, a 21 -year congressional veteran and arch-segregationist who was stripped of his House seniority by Democrats for supporting Barry Goldwater in 1964, defeated State Treasurer Wil liam Winter, a racial moderate backed by Mississippi's Negro leaders. Also defeated were all 22 Negro candidates-for local and county offices, including four for sheriff...
...marvelous conversations with Eckermann, the elderly Goethe once remarked that the difference between Classicism and Romanticism was the difference between health and disease. He did not live to know the work of the arch Romantic Wagner, who could reflect both: if Tristan suggests illness, Die Meistersinger is a paragon of health. Last night, the latter's Prelude - which more successfully survives detachment from the whole than most of the other Wagner excerpts that turn up in the concert hall - came through with a good deal of its innate robustness and exuberance. In some places the strings were overpowered...
...science and philosophy-a view that Rome found no more palatable than the novelties of Loisy. Expelled from the Jesuits, Tyrrell was excommunicated in 1907; he refused to confess his errors, died two years later. Yet even Pius X was moved by Tyrrell's death. "Unlike most arch-heretics, he died a good Christian," the Pontiff was said to have told a friend...
...vaguely funereal costume drifted through bare spaces that seemed to recede into infinities of aquamarine. Massive bands of grey rock jutted around and above them. The eerie landscape was punctuated by spare, brooding pieces of sculpture: a huge, reclining nude in gleaming green; two spiky, dead-white trees; labyrinthine arch forms like vast bleached bones; a series of angular, menacing mummies...