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...anything, last week's consensus statement simply made matters worse. In persuading Gallup to endorse the apologia, Harris may have widened the trade's credibility gap to the dimensions of 1948, when virtually every opinion sampling was ushering New York's Thomas E. Dewey into the White House. Twenty years later, the memory of that year sends shudders down the spines of all pollsters. One pollster called last week's results "a fiasco." Another, Burns Roper, observed: "If this statement of 'open lead' for Rockefeller is construed by readers as being designed to influence...
Invisible Partners. "I've produced the people who produce the buildings," says Owings with understandable pride. He is referring to his largely invisible partners, each busy in the five S.O.M. offices and each competing with the others. Among them are four designers who by general consensus rank at the very top of their profession...
...commercial narrative, concerns are conveyed chiefly through genre films: westerns, war films, science-fiction and detective melodramas, among many others. The critical consensus has always been that genre restricts, an attitude shared still by condescending, if blind, people like Pauline Kael or Bosley Crowther. But for all the mediocre westerns churned-out which reaffirm genre as tantamount to cliche and formula, we have Hawks's Rio Bravo or Ford's The Searchers, both of which use genre background as a means of allowing their protagonists the fullest range of individual expression. For all the cheap detective thrillers, we have Lang...
...peace and international justice, which not only condemned the use of nuclear weapons in war but also gave support to the idea of selective pacifism. Traditionally, Christian moral theology has accepted conscientious objection only on the all-or-nothing basis of opposition to all warfare. Reflecting a new consensus of pacifists, both religious and secular, the council's resolution declared that churches should "give spiritual care and support to those who object to participation in particular wars they feel bound in conscience to oppose...
...little before 1 a.m., people started to gather in a crowd for a meeting. Maybe 50 people sitting, and another 25 standing in a circle around them. They began to talk about The Man--the police--coming to get them, and what to do about it. The consensus of the group seemed to be for a symbolic march to the local jail with a demand to be arrested, or if not that, simply sitting there and allowing the police to remove them...