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...pollsters argue that a wise politician can trust his own instincts about 75% of the time, but a sound poll will give him a correct reading 90% of the time. That makes a 10% margin of error-and there is no guarantee that, in fact, the margin is not apt to be much larger. Thus the powerful polls can help democracy triumph, or at least muddle through-as long as the politicians and the public remember the margin of error and refuse to be hypnotized by the augurs...
...royal court has been trimmed to three, a lady-in-waiting for the Queen and the two business aides for the King. On Saturday afternoons and Sundays, the household help are off, and the family often go to the nearby Olgiata Club for dinner. Other nights they are apt to seek out one of Rome's simple trattorias...
...Almost half of the protest-prone students are Jewish; few are Catholic. The most active students cluster in schools that have a tradition of dissent and a tolerance for it-universities such as California, Wisconsin, Columbia. Most of the activists are students of the arts and humanities; they are apt to be bright but dreamy, and not yet committed to careers. Few are in the professional schools-business, engineering or medicine. Since many universities no longer demand compulsory attendance at lectures, they have the time to ring doorbells for a candidate or march for civil rights. Some sympathetic professors spur...
...performance, or continuing activity"). Artists who followed in his wake have moved a long way from his early haphazard, boisterous ways. Luminal artists first experimented with the pulsating strobe effects and psychedelic projections that have since moved into discotheques, ballets and boutiques; the newest and most radical works are apt to be calm, cool and minimal. A case in point is Dan Flavin's "Indoor Routines," constructed of 54 pink and gold fluorescent tubes, which turned the main floor of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art into a lurid, luminal glen...
...Society was notified that "a towardly lad and apt witt for a scholler" had entered the Indian College. This was John Wampus, a Nipmuc Sagamore, who quit before the year was out and spent the next few years in and out of jail for debt and drunkenness. He later settled down as a roving realtor in Massachusetts, and managed to sell the entire township of Sutton--which...