Word: claims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King's chief lieutenants for more than a decade, Abernathy has staked out a claim as custodian of the dream. Whether that claim will go unchallenged remains to be seen. Far less cerebral than his predecessor, he has shown an unhappy tendency to make inept remarks and to accept bad advice from ultramilitant S.C.L.C. officials whom King managed to keep in line...
...sometimes suggest a kind of demagogy in reverse: the crowd seems to sway the politicians through the polls. One expects those who seek high office to speak out with courage and conviction, to teach the people, to lead. Instead, the candidates seem increasingly guided by pollsters-semivisible oracles who claim to know what millions of U.S. voters think and feel. How many Americans have ever talked to a pollster, or even seen one? Yet, pollsters have acquired huge and growing power...
...poll of a "bellwether" county in New Hampshire had put Johnson far ahead of all possible competitors. Not stated, however, was the fact that the county was historically Democratic and had given 68% of its vote to Johnson in 1964. Occasionally, pollsters also abuse polls. Some shifty operators claim to interview 1,000 people but only reach 400. A few conduct surveys for one party, then sell them under the table to the other side...
Punctured Profile. Doman and Delacato demand strict adherence to the format of their program, insisting that anything less may result in failure. Such time-consuming effort is justified, they claim, since it patterns those functions that the child's brain has somehow failed to develop...
...some ways, the best article in the fourth Journal is Assistant Dean Archie Epps' "The Theme of Exile in Malcolm X's Harvard Speeches." Epps views Malcolm through Shakespeare, a technique that will bother many blacks, and some whites, who will claim that Shakespeare is superfluous to an understanding of Malcolm...