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...General canvass--amounts less than $1,000--the more modest...
...polls are typical of the general inconclusiveness of the whole publication: their summary--"How, then, do we characterize the subject of our poll? ... He is as radical as he is conservative, as intense as he is unconcerned. We are left not with the portrait of a figure but the canvass of an experience..." Considering the construction of the polls, no other conclusion could possibly have been reached. Its subjects range from "Where is your home?" to "Why do you exercise?" It includes such gems as "How many classes do you cut," and "What do you look for in a Woman...
...goal of $800 has been set for the drive which will canvass only the freshman class by members of the Freedom Council. A movie on the Hungarian revolt will open the campaign in the second week of April...
...farcical. One can usually recognize who the house candidates are and what they stand for by personal contact with them in the dining hall and in house activities. House elections are easier and fairer on candidates, too. A Lowell politican for example, can more conveniently, and much more justifiably, canvass all the entries in Lowell to advance his cause, than stuff everybody's mailbox with tire-some and inane letters...
...ball of steel farther than anyone-including Parry O'Brien -has tossed it before. He searches for tricks that help him "dig deep into what you might call an inner reserve of strength," a search that has taken him into studies of physics and aerodynamics, through a canvass of religions and a long flirtation with the postural exercises and "positive thought" notions of Yoga. To warm up for a contest he often uses a sort of self-hypnosis, with tape recordings of his own voice firing himself with hatred for Competitor X or Y, and exhorting himself to greater...