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...sendmoney. He did. Keke today is an ebullient woman of 48 who pinches and flirts with Anderson, advises him on everything from how to comb his hair to political strategy-she really persuaded him to run -and works crowds on her own. "I'm the humanizing element in this campaign," she says...
...conflict-ridden nor as relentlessly bombarded with daily polls as we are now. Though the contemporary scene makes for confusion and instability, there is one consolation. The confusion presents a unique opportunity to gain an insight indispensable to all who rely upon poll data. It highlights a missing element in the relationship of opinion polls to the public whose views they register...
...life, and this was a palpable fact. I knew him during all four of my years as an undergraduate, and I could never identify a set of critical principles that could claim his allegiance. So far as I could tell he did not need any. Literature was his element, and he no more needed an academic theory to deal with it than a dolphin needs swimming lessons. With the greatest sympathy and delicately discerning judgement he simply read the great poets. Of course, one reason he could be so persuasively dismissive of what he called "lit. crit." was that...
...arguments against registration were clear when Carter proposed the plan three months ago--it is militarily unnecessary and politically unproductive, perhaps even provocative. The motives behind it are political; and, in time of peace, it is needlessly coercive. But a new element has been added to the equation in the last few months--young people, high school and college students and others who will be affected by the plan, have rallied large-scale opposition to the registration...
Kilbourne said advertisements "reflect the dominant element in society (men) making them the norm. When women are depicted in advertisements, she said, they seem to be pathologically concerned with beauty...