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This younger, tougher G.O.P. breed, largely from the suburbs, is more eager for battle than its Republican elders. The new breed's leader, Assembly Speaker Perry Duryea, a silver-haired, sardonic lobster dealer from the semi-rural tip of Long Island, likes to emphasize the "limitations of our society." He means to impose those limitations on New York City. Before Lindsay came to Albany, Nelson Rockefeller had seen his own "austerity" state budget trimmed from $8.45 billion to almost $7.7 billion by the legislature. Knowing a political trend when he sees one, Rocky decided to make the best...
...said later that new units were opening in the South and that the quantity of officers would not suffer. "It's the same input, but it's a different breed of cats," he asserted. "We need Texas Agees, but we also need Harvard eggheads...
...outside candidate was Donald Kennedy, professor of Biology at Stanford and member of the Board of Overseers, who had all of the requisite credentials, a small following among selected Overseers, but did not come from inside Harvard-a fact which, because Harvard rather provincially thinks itself a special breed of animal, worked against his choice. For many the Bok-Dunlop choice was a matter of individual taste, largely dependant on the age differential of some 15 years. For others, it was a crucial testof Harvard's willingness to choose now blood (Bok) over old administrative types (Dunlop now sits...
...F.D.R.'s 1936 plurality within one percentage point of the popular vote. The Literary Digest-then the big gun of polling-picked Alf Landon as the winner. Though he conducted polls for FORTUNE and commented on public opinion in a syndicated newspaper column. Roper inveighed against "that new breed of animal-the poll-itician...
...system breeds obedience, frustration, dependence and fear: a kind of gentle violence that is usually turned against oneself, one that is sorrowful and full of guilt, but a violence nevertheless, and one realizes that what is done in the schools is deeply connected to what we are doing now in Vietnam. That is: we don't teach hate in the schools, or murder, but we do isolate the individual; we empty him of life by ignoring or suppressing his impulse toward life; we breed in him a lack of respect for it, a loss of love-and thus we produce...