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Steady Hand. Actually, the President had gone to great lengths to get a careful consensus from leading economic experts on whether he should raise taxes: he insisted on signed memos of opinion from every person he consulted, both inside and outside the Administration. All agreed that a tax boost was in order. Some non-Administration economists argued that the crimp on income could brake the business slowdown to the danger point. But Johnson also asked for an average 20% rise in Social Security benefits. It was an unexpectedly large increase that will pump some $4.1 billion into the economy...
Princeton undergraduate sociologists are constantly making studies of the oddities of Bicker and the club system. The chart below lists the clubs and the Woodrow Wilson Society and compares Darryl Kancko's face ranking of the clubs to Nelson Rose's consensus ranking. The face ranking was prepared using the Freshman Herald for the Class of 1967. A sample of students rated the 718 men on the Princeton grading scale, from 1 (top) to 7 (bottom), from what they thought of them just looking at their faces. Rose's ranking was gathered from questionnaires of more than 100 clubmen. Face...
Another approach was also supported enthusiastically--a student panel to question both Goldberg and the man selected to oppose him. There was no consensus on how the panel should be selected...
...today's mini-Britain, the consensus seems to be that royalty deserves to be treated like commoners...
These conspicuous absences prove the contrary of Marcus' suggestion that good writing is somehow a function of national power and prosperity and a product of the consensus that goes with them. The U.S. is represented not by Virgilian celebrators of the Great Society but by outsiders dog-paddling against the mainstream of American life. If American society is a success, no one would know it from this anthology. Unless it is Louis Auchincloss (unrepresented here), the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant has no laureate and, unless it is John O'Hara (also unrepresented), no candid friend. The voice...