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...past, producers operated on the axiom that if viewers could be hooked in the first three weeks of a new series, they would stick with it all season. So why bother about quality? Now, says NBC's Mort Werner, "viewers are less committed. They make their selections on a program-by-program basis, and if a special seems more interesting than a series, well, the dial is just an arm's length away...
...within Tolstoy himself, sending him into cycles of sublime creativity and profound depression. To Tolstoy, reality always differed from hopes and dreams, and it was axiomatic to his art that life would be most disappointing to those characters who had the highest qualities. In his own life, that same axiom became a self-fulfilling prophecy...
...extraordinarily arbitrary nature of this decision is obvious. Students were singled out with only the most casual regard to the degree of their involvement in the sit-in. While strongly defending what they called Leavitt's freedom of movement, the University has ignored a basic axiom of civil liberties: that the law be applied equally...
...real way to monitor them and tell what they're doing. So we end up dribbling money into this or that, funding a program for a year or two, then dropping it." Daniel Moynihan, head of the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, uses the axiom: "The more programs, the less impact." Coordination is almost as sorely needed as money if federal efforts are to succeed-and both, so far, have been in short supply...
...President was hardly his usual loquacious self-at times his nonanswers were all but inaudible-the probable reason was his faith in Johnsonian axiom No. 1, which holds that if a little is good, more is better and most is best. In recent weeks, his public demeanor has been markedly subdued, and the low-posture ploy has apparently had results. For the first time since October, according to a Harris poll released last week, Johnson's popularity rating stands an even 50%-50% with Michigan's Governor George Romney, who only last March led the President...