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...fact, nudging Washington was the point of the vote. With an almost quaint, civics-class formality, the antinuclear proposition called on the state legislature to pass a resolution directing Vermont's three-man congressional delegation to urge President Reagan to propose a mutual nuclear arms freeze with the Soviet Union. On Friday in the Vermont state legislature, the house passed the resolution, 103 to 26. Similar measures have been approved by six other states, and town meetings in Maine and New Hampshire are about to address the issue. In the Senate this week, Democrat Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts...
...South, looking and interviewing and listing. The result opened at the Corcoran last month: "Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980." Fifty years, 20 artists (most of them completely unknown outside their own communities), and almost 400 works-this is a singular act of discovery. Lovers of the quaint need not attend, for there is something fiery, marvelous and strong every ten feet...
...current that runs through much of the writing from the New Left. Mario Savio, the leader of the Free Speech Movement on the Berkeley campus in the early 60s, wrote for example that "the things we are asking for in our civil rights process have a deceptively quaint ring. We are asking for the due process of law ... We are asking that regulation ought to be considered as arrived at legitimately only from the consensus of the governed. These phrases are all pretty old, but they are not being taken seriously in American today. "In a 1965 speech SDS president...
While the quaint name and stubby bottle suggest that the drink might be made in the bogs by leprechauns, Baileys is the brainchild of chemists at Gilbeys. The developers were looking for an alcoholic drink "for people who don't like to get sloshed," recalls MacCarthy-Morrogh. The alcohol content of Baileys is 34 proof, or less than half that of many traditional liqueurs. The other goal was to create a product entirely from Irish ingredients that could qualify for the generous tax breaks the government offers to exporters. After testing dozens of potential beverages, including some strange-tasting...
They say it's a long way to Tipperary. The Harvard hockey team found out this weekend that it's also a long way to the quaint upper New York State towns of Canton and Pottsdam, the homes of St. Lawrence and Clarkson, respectively...