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...anything more than at his tender mercies once he had taken the oath of office. Essentially, this was the realization that despite Humphrey's personal reputation as a champion of black causes and the similar, if less impressive, reputation of the national Democratic party, blacks had failed to elicit from either anything save the same vague promises of patronage and progressivism that they had always gotten from the Democrats, and, more importantly, had failed to enhance their political hand to the point that they could expect anything more...
...death," she writes, "the image in the moving picture does not even wait to invite us, it abducts us to the scene with the result that we have a collection of ungrieved-over deaths in our storehouse and a scarcity of feelings to match them." A dead Turnlung can elicit feelings because he endures as a body of poetry...
Sometimes it became a little too obvious that the candidates made their tours not to elicit votes but as a gimmick for the press. On one stop in a paper factory, McGovern's press following outnumbered the employees by about two to one. Not only were the press overwhelming in number but they were not very subtle. One plump middle-aged woman with a "Re-elect the President" button complimented McGovern on his lovely daughter, telling him. "I can't vote for you. I'm voting for the President because I'm a WASP." One member of the press chortled...
...road to the Democratic National Convention at Miami in July is paved with a record 24 primary elections and a bewildering array of state caucuses, conventions and diverse devices to elicit grass-roots participation. No Democrat has the resources or the stamina to contest in each of the 50 states; picking and choosing where to run-and how hard-is all-important. Here, in brief, are the principal game plans...
...Collegium Musicum combines the resources of 70 of the University's better vocalists and one of its finest young conductors. After hearing Adams' reading of the "St. Matthew Passion" last year in Sanders, Michael Steinberg pronounced him "outstandingly gifted." Not the least of these gifts is his ability to elicit from each musician in the group the best he or she can produce. Adams' prowess as a conductor, the caliber of the individual performers, and a varied repertoire, including Bach's "Jesu, Meine Freude", Brahms Opus 104, Purcell's "Funeral Sentences", three Byrd motets, and works of Debussy, Sermisy, Vecchi...