Word: man-in-the-street
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...first question went to the heart of the Christian doctrine of the natural sinfulness of man-though Rector Ribble phrased it in casual, man-in-the-street language. Doing their best to interpret the theological issue in the poll's terms, 245 parishioners declared that people "by nature" are "good" or "more apt to be good than bad"; only 21 could bring themselves to say that people are by nature "bad." But 272 were firmly orthodox in declaring their belief in a personal rather than an impersonal God (one came out for no God at all), and 271 accepted...
Next day most of Boston hurried to make amends. The chamber of commerce invited the Japanese to lunch. Man-in-the-street polls showed that the citizenry was ashamed of its council. Massachusetts' Governor Paul A. Dever welcomed the Japanese to the gold-domed State House, where the legislature had just passed a resolution of censure for the Boston council...
...your home telephone number. One night a few weeks ago the operator phoned and began reading a long, detailed National Affairs query in a disinterested voice: How's unemployment, beef prices, mink sales? What are Seattle drinking habits, changes in bank deposits, Christmas trade forecasts, egg supplies, man-in-the-street thoughts, apartment rents, house sales? Suddenly she stopped reading and gasped: 'Good lord, what they want to know...
...Hysteria. As Washington reporters drew blanks on any further bomb news from usually willing sources, the papers fell back on man-in-the-street interviews and unsubstantiated rumors from "reliable Swedish sources." Almost alone the Hearst papers made a try at spine-chilling; the New York Journal-American ran a half-page picture showing Manhattan engulfed in atomic "waves of death and havoc." Scripps-Howard's Newspaper Enterprise Association dug up an "exclusive" story: RUSSIA HAS 4 ATOM PLANTS. (N.E.A. got the tip from an "escaped Soviet industrial official.") The New York World-Telegram's scareheads...
Anybody Got a Commodity? It is on this split between the active but lowbrow man-in-the-street and the wrangling but ineffectual man-of-intellect that Author McCarthy spins her tale. In McCarthy's fable, the incidents of everyday life on the mountaintop soon show that the split is in fact a bridgeless gulf, and Utopia itself a creation without foundations-doomed not so much by "history" as by the colonists' inability to produce "a commodity more tangible than morality" and hopeful...