Word: rigidities
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...will vote and why rests on interviews with only 3,500 to 4,000 families in each campaign. But he believes that his method is better than public-opinion polls. The pollsters try to get a census cross section in taking their samplings-a method that Lubell regards as rigid and superficial. Instead, Lubell goes on the theory that people vote according to group interests, sectional, economic, ethnic, religious. He charts and studies election returns in every U.S. county and most big-city precincts, as far back as the last century, to isolate the important shifting currents in group voting...
...renewed plea that he lead a new Mexican art movement against the prevailing Communist and leftist painters-Siqueiros, Rivera, et al. But Rufino Tamayo does not want to create a new kind of orthodoxy. He is convinced that the leftists, by pretending "that Mexican painting must follow one specific, rigid line, have put Mexican art back many years." Of the eager young artists who want to follow him, he says: "They are not dogmatic. That's the reason I love them. They don't follow my painting, but my idea of freedom...
...have two things to say about this beginning. First, the old price-depressing Democratic farm program stayed in effect right up to harvest last year . . . Eighty-five per cent of the price decline after the Korean war inflation came while rigid price supports were still in effect. Our opponents today are criticizing the mess that they themselves left behind...
...Late the Phalaropeis an excellent stage adaptation of Alan Paton's novel about love and the consequences of withholding it in Africa, or anywhere. Finlay Currie, as the upholder of a coldly rigid morality, is outstanding. It remains at the Colonial only one more week before becoming a hit in New York...
...remains to be seen, however. whether apparent trends toward more rigid social stratification will not make it even more difficult for the lower classes to get higher education...