Word: factors
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Whether or not the Riesman article was the precipitating factor in our being invited to Shaw is unimportant. It does seem clear, however, that we were hired to prove that Shaw is doing something; that Shaw is not just another Negro college. Perhaps, too, it was hoped that the tutors would be favorably impressed with Shaw and that Shaw would thus be vindicated by a second set of Harvard eyes...
...more imponderable factor in Sen. McCarthy's campaign is the traditional isolationism of German and Scandinavian groups, which has somewhat dissipated since the late '30's. As a result of Catholic and Protestant missionary work in China and Japan, many Wisconsin congregations identify with Asia. The state's stand on the war, however, has never been put to the test...
...Pope undoubtedly weighed the merits of many clerics-including Archbishop John Maguire, 63, who has administered the see of New York since December-before making the choice. Perhaps the most persuasive factor was that Cardinal Spellman, shortly before his death, wrote a letter to Paul recommending Cooke as his successor...
Those who question his success point out that he is only doing what other police forces have tried. The major difference, they say, is the amount of publicity he received. Headley does not entirely disagree, notes that the publicity may well have been an important factor in the initial month's drop. Indeed, he does not claim to have found the panacea to his city's and the nation's ever-increasing crime problem...
...authentic selves can best be seen, says Fiedler, in a myth-busting novel such as John Barth'g The Sot-Weed Factor, which purports to relate the naked, ribald truth about Pocahontas and John Smith. Fiedler also singles out Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, in which a white man and an Indian struggle against being lobotomized (read "castrated") by Big Nurse in a psycho ward. In these contemporary works the spirit of the Vanishing American returns, enabling the authors to debunk traditional notions of how the West was won. This debunking criticizes...