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...does your position differ from Mr. Nixon's with respect to law and order...
...cliches from other party pep talks going back 15 years. But it created precisely the evangelistic effect that he had hoped for: the delegates jumped to their feet and gave him a proloneed, heartfelt ovation. Even Dissenter Cousins joined the cheering, ready to relent a bit. "We can differ on one specific issue. But it doesn't mean we're not right behind the government on all else...
...MANY ways these criticisms are criticisms of style. But they are substantive, nontheless. No action--by Olimpieri, Stendahl, Faculty, or students--is going to overpower the war machine. One's strategy, then, necessarily becomes that of symbolic protest and confrontation, which differ from publicity stunts in that they aim at raising issues for debate. And this tactic only succeeds when carried off dramatically...
...danger of overindulgence in superstition is that it breeds a kind of shortcut thinking. Already, TV commercials verge on magic: how does a deodorant differ from a love potion? Already, the incantations of New Left and New Right extremists echo the irrational chants of sinister shamans. No one has ever been hurt by tossing salt over his left shoulder; many have felt a vibration of personal peace by crying "Om!" The trouble is that superstitions, like Occam's razor, cut both ways. Before Western man gets any more mystical, perhaps he should distinguish between superstitions that destroy tranquillity...
...error margin of as much as two or three percentage points is routinely assumed as a hazard of the pollster's trade-but that could hardly account for the startling discrepancies in last week's results. All three pollsters used basically the same techniques, although they often differ in their philosophies of interpretation. Gallup, for example, believes that "our job begins and ends with the reporting of facts." Harris argues that survey results are meaningful only if they are digested and interpreted. Each pollster has his own methods. Harris likes to reinterview some one he has already talked...