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...groups. Goldwaterism and Buckley conservatism contain few ideas that can be given institutional form-so the unions, farmers, business executives, blacks, ethnic groups, the aged and the unemployed will never vote for their candidates. Only small business owners and other independent types are sufficiently free from institutional needs to assert their prejudices in the ballot box. After the Goldwater debacle, Buckley started chortling that it is far more important to influence history than to win elections, but, alas, from an historic, as well as political, standpoint. Buckley and company must reconcile themselves to irrelevance...
...people want to assert that this is the new hard line," Tonis said. "This is ridiculous. I've told hundreds that this is the way things will happen if students have narcotics in their possession and if the police get the proper information...
Although he sees a possible future in the professional ranks, Lewis believes that his Harvard degree will help him to assert himself in any career. An economics major, he hopes to go into "either business or law school if I don't make it in the pros...
There were but a few hundred black elected officials throughout the country in 1965; there are 1,771 now -and the black electorate has only begun to assert its strength. Local leadership is growing everywhere in conflict over local issues; in the virtually all-black central area of Brooklyn, black citizen security patrols roam at night because residents feel the police are doing a poor job. "We will have order in this community, one way or another," says a local leader...
...Paris and the Futurists in Italy. It was a web of movement, great and small, that he would pursue for the rest of his career, and he described it with his usual laconic concreteness. "In life all things come under the magnetic influence of other things-the bigger assert themselves strongly-the smaller not so much but they still assert themselves and though hidden they strive to be seen and in so doing change their bent and direction. While these powers are at work pushing, pulling, sideways, downwards, upwards, I can hear the sound of their strife and there...