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Only one question matters to him, and he claims that those who criticize him never bother to ask it: "Is it true?" Schlesinger insists that it is, but he realizes that truth in some situations is not a satisfactory defense. In this respect, Schlesinger likes to quote Sir Walter Raleigh's comment in the preface to his History of the New World: "Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth." Sir Walter did not get his teeth kicked out-he got his head chopped off; and while...
Even after the citizen has managed to register, voting itself is at best a bother and at worst an ordeal. Polling places are almost always overcrowded, badly organized, requiring long waits. Way back in 1634, Massachusetts switched from voice voting to paper ballots. Today, most Massachusetts precincts still use paper, and so do a majority of the nation's other 173,000 precincts, despite the fact that electronic progress has already bypassed even the familiar automatic voting machine...
...only the Americans' presence that seems to bother the British workers, but also the can-do attitudes that the Yanks display. When Ford bought up a pressed-steel plant at Swansea, the British waited skeptically to see how long it would take the Yanks to get it into production for Ford. They got a surprise: in an unheard of six months, three Americans got the plant rolling...
...more nearly established"; but it's a sorry thing that the magazine has to depend so much on the "community." The current number boasts only three writers from Harvard or the 'Cliffe. The Advocate will continue to lean on post-B.A. literati as long as undergraduates don't bother to contribute...
...final tragedy is that world pressure has crippled the white Rhodesian moderate. Those few citizens who still bother to openly criticize the government are practically powerless. Most others have given up trying or have begun to feel that while their country is being threatened by hostile forces from without, it would be tantamount to treason to voice an opinion against the government. Whereas just this summer I heard a Rhodesian lady say, "If I was an African, I would be right in the very front line fighting," now there is nearly complete white solidarity behind the government...