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...value of some of the Institute's programs. He was not convinced that public figures would speak candidly even in small groups and even if their remarks were "off-the-record." And he thought it important that the honorary associates be questioned publicly about current issues within their purview. Ansara believed these arguments in the abstract; and in McNamara's case they had a special persuasiveness. McNamara engendered hatred as a symbol of the Vietnam war; his stiff personal style alienated people even more. Ansara assured Gordon that most SDS members would insist on some sort of demonstration. Nevertheless...
Provincialism is, of course, an attitude-and attitudes are relative. A man can be provincial in the biggest city or cosmopolitan in the smallest. But provincialism in the old pejorative sense-blindness and insensitivity to all beyond a narrow purview-is practically disappearing before the realities of modern U.S. life. It is hard to be narrow when TV shows yesterday's battles in Viet Nam, when one out of five Americans moves each year, when the small-towner can often afford the same cars for his garage or the same clothes for his wife (Norells or Balenciagas...
...ardent member of the old, deep-pink Popular Front Socialist League. Her idea of a Sunday in the park is addressing a crowd from a Trafalgar Square plinth. She has made all the Aldermaston ban-the-bomb marches, has long had a passion for emergent Africa, the purview...
...history. Gallup praises individualism but concludes that supersecret group thinking, such as the Manhattan Project that produced the first atomic bomb, is the intellectual wave of the future. As for the roseate vision that mental muscle building will enable man to "solve any problem that comes within his purview," even Gallup occasionally sobers up. "After a time," he concedes, "human beings run out of ideas...
...have been in a fatal crash are listed in a master file, against which the computer can check any new license application and flash a reply within 24 hours to the state that sends it. Although there is a move on to broaden the machine's purview, present law prevents the computer from registering any other offense (parking, running red lights, etc.), and subsequent acquittals, or other altered court judgments are caught by interstate exchange of records. So far, only the District of Columbia, Missouri and Maryland send all their applications in for checking. Most states check only names...