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...what that's worth. And it could scare them. After all, we have great canvassing power if we get involved in it. It might not pay to keep us unhappy. In most cases, however, it'll probably be a question of canvassing diligently enough to defeat these hopelessly stubborn representatives. Sen. Ralph Yarborough told the Harvard group that organized canvassing could have won a primary for him in Texas. Instead, he had lost...
...bitterly feuding camps. Yarborough, 66, relies on a New Dealish grass-roots coalition of labor, liberals, East Texas blue-collar workers, blacks and Mexican Americans. This formula has kept him in the Senate for 13 years. Son of an East Texas farmer, the rural-oriented Yarborough is folksy and stubborn. Probably the South's most liberal Senator, he is a pariah among the state's conservative oil, banking and commercial interests. Recently he infuriated some of his backers by voting against the Supreme Court nomination of a Southerner, G. Harrold Carswell, and thereby became a major Republican target...
...trying to fuse too many different sounds or trying to incorporate too many independent effects. The inevitable result of over-stepping this peculiarly defined boundary is an abundance of noise, and a paucity of music. The many accomplishments of Traffic, for instance, were greatly obscured by the group's stubborn determination to embody special effects in its music...
...page of the program, Fellini says, "If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine." Yet Fellini's own La Strada says with great beauty that even if that may once have been so, it is no longer. Fellini's present "innocence," I am afraid, is closer to a stubborn refusal to make coherent what is happening to the characters in his film by explaining why it is happening (and, more important since this may be a film about a society rather than about specific characters, what was wrong with Rome, and by the inevitable extension, what is wrong with...
...male, largely English cast to a location in Norway 200 miles north of Oslo, where the topography, light conditions and bitter climate closely resemble those of Siberia. On that inhuman tundra, Wrede is trying to capture on film Solzhenitsyn's minutely detailed study of man's stubborn endurance in a world of inhumanity...