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...democracy, there is always a conflict between responsiveness and responsibility. And quite often the public is far more alert to the need for new policies than are self-justifying politicians, who may be loath to alter stand-pat positions. So for all the flaws and abuses of present-day polls, they do stimulate the dialogue between the people and their elected officials...
...present-day writer seems likely to succeed at smashing the "Fitz-Omar cult," it is Robert Graves. At 72, he is established as a leading British poet, an adroit translator and an iconoclastic critic and scholar. He does not read Persian, but worked from an annotated crib prepared for him by Persian Poet Omar Ali-Shah, who claims that the manuscript has been in his family for 800 years. Yet this new Rubaiyyat suffers from Graves's apparent inability to decide whether he was writing more as a translator or as a poet. He may well have failed...
Fauvism lasted but two years-no longer than many present-day artistic vogues. Yet for Vlaminck, by virtue of his youth, temperament and training-or rather, lack of it-it was the right movement at the right time. He transmuted its gaudy splendors into rockhard canvases that can be looked at again and again without their seeming to fade or weaken. By the age of 30, he had attained heights he never regained in a long lifetime of painting. He also recorded, for later generations, the candor and gaiety of a placid era and countryside that were soon...
...typical the Republic of Haiti, where black men have ruled a sovereign state since the early nineteenth century, but where also such Black Rule or, if you prefer, Black Power, has been oppressive and dysfunctional for the black masses or lower classes? Or should we take the present-day state of Nigeria, where the polity is rent asunder by fratricidal warfare that was sparked by a grotesque genocidal act committed by one against another in this largest of all black societies? Or should we take as typical of the Black Experience the Afro-American community which was subjected to chattel...
Before the century ends, says Dr. Hammer, the voting booth may be a relic of the past. Present-day computers could be programmed to count and analyze ballots cast from any number of remote points anywhere in the country, and to keep a single running, up-to-the-second record of any election. In the future, any home with a telephone will be within dialing reach of election computers; voters, says Dr. Hammer, will be able to call in their ballots without leaving their homes. As an optimistic scientist, he sees the problems of identification of voters as an engineering...