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Perhaps. Right now, thousands of party officials find themselves torn in two and sometimes even trisected as the contenders seek pledges of support. The odds have traditionally favored the incumbent President, who commands potent leverage. A selective White House survey of Democratic House members, excluding the prowar, pro-L.B.J. Southerners, showed fhat 160 preferred Johnson, eleven Kennedy, three McCarthy. In a New York Times count, Democratic state leaders predicted that 65% of the delegate votes at the convention would go to L.B.J. (for a total of 1,725 convention votes, more than 400 above the 1,312 needed...
...given the campaign whatever order it has. Money, strangely enough, is not a very big handicap now. McCarthy's biggest problem for the long run is building a professional staff-and keeping it from Kennedy. Goodwin, a close friend of Bobby's, admits that he is "torn" between the two candidates, and no one would be surprised to see him shift camps after the Wisconsin primary. "I notice," quipped McCarthy last week, "that Dick Goodwin has a very large suitcase. He might have a change of clothes for another climate, but I'm not sure...
...amount from the U.S. economy. Last week the President called for national "austerity," warned that the dangers confronting the dollar are "immediate and serious." Said he: "The fabric of international cooperation upon which the world's postwar prosperity has been built is now threatened. If that fabric is torn apart, the consequences will not be confined to foreign countries but will touch every American...
Without Humor. As Cox sees it, mirth and festivity involve a certain juxtaposing of past with present, which has the effect of affirming experience. "When one approaches religious faith with a kind of playfulness," he says, "one can't become as anguished and inwardly torn up about belief and nonbelief as has been popular in recent theological literature. For both the Christian spirit and the comic sensibility nothing in life should be taken too seriously. The world is important but not ultimately so." One reason witty Cox is critical of a Christian atheist like Thomas Altizer is that "there...
...outset like a question. In the first movement, the probing woodwinds turn it over and over with melancholy reflectiveness, then pass it on in the following five movements to mocking, impatient percussion, urgently flowing strings and declamatory brass. In the end, after it has been explored, expanded, inverted and torn apart, the motif is reassembled not as a question but as an answer, and all the various strands of Hanson's piquant orchestration come together in a ringing climax...