Word: counting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Although many people will not like seeing the Fair Deal fail of passage, it is the effect of "McCarthyism" on the thinking of the U.S. citizen and his representative that will count most...
...record-breaking years, the U.S. had gained 19,028,086 people. All but four states had grown, and the increases in the west were gigantic; California alone could count 3,678,836 newcomers (more people than live in any one of 36 other states). The total U.S. population-150,697,361-was about 45 million more than it was in the '205,90 million more than it was in the Gay Nineties...
These congressional candidates are members of political parties, usually either the Democratic or the Republican. While many may be campaigning almost entirely on questions of interest only to their districts, these matters do count little in the long run. When those elected take their places in the Senate and in the House next January, they will be seated as Democrats or as Republicans. When the policies of the country are voted upon, the men elected today will vote mostly as Democrats or as Republicans. For the next few years these men will be running the nation...
...more involved than this party against party issue. It is relatively easy for the honest voter to make his choice when he can pick Lehman over Hanley. It is harder when he must choose between Taft and Ferguson. Yet, in the last analysis, it is party votes which count in Washington, after the speeches are over and done with...
...gives The Twenty-Fifth Hour its heavy coating of irony. Men, Gheorghiu is saying, no longer think in terms of individuals or their happiness. Human life has ceased to mean anything except as a cog in some machine or pattern. Production, material results, categories, statistics-these are all that count. The criminals are not so much the Nazis and the Communists as the big-machine boys everywhere. And of all the nations in the world, says Gheorghiu, it is the U.S. that most fervently worships the twin cults of bigness and the machine. Author Gheorghiu (who steadfastly refuses to visit...