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...campaigns become more extended and intensive, the voters' interest is bound to ebb. The disinterest is fueled by the cynicism and often hypocritical criticism of the press. After months of being treated as lifeless embodiments of electoral power (which may be unavoidable given the length and scope of the campaign), many voters begin to respond similarly. They cease to react or to care. It is a tribute to the voters' faith and endurance that so many of them did vote...
...ebb-and-flow character of opinion in 1976 has undeniably injected suspense into the campaign. But it also has intensified the hazards of voter sampling, producing wide disparities in the major polls and seriously unnerving the candidates and their chief strategists...
...come. There are no fixed roles in this work; the cast is an anonymous, drably clad, chameleon-like group. They are reincarnated in successive scenes, serving as specific characters, archetypal men and women, corpses, beasts, chorus or bystanders. Rudimentary identities and emotions are conveyed through pantomime and the ebb and flow of varicolored light...
British Journalist Henry Fairlie has written of the American resurgence, of a nation regaining its courage and vigor. Yet the caretaker of this resurgence is at an extraordinarily low ebb in public opinion, leading a party also in bad estate...
...develop the germinal idea in phases. Mallardi welcomes unpredictability in her students and shies away from learning by rote; still her dancers must justify every urge. "Currents Cast," the first piece in the program, transforms the contradictions and releases basic to every modern Graham class into the rhythm of ebb and flow near the ocean's floor. But while the reflected images swim beautifully and smoothly overlap, they are inpalpable, slipping like water from the hand...