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...revealed its human dimensions more than ever. Some of the mysticism has vanished. Americans need leadership as much as ever, but they may never again respect the presidency as much as they used to, finding that they have been brought so close to it by war and its internal ferment. Still, they may understand it better. If they do not give it the old trust and support, they may at least reduce their expectations about what one human being can do in the Oval Office...
...longer true, and that the blocs are merging into broader concerns that cut across the usual lines, and that regional affiliations are largely losing their meaning. There is a restless, undefinable yearning for change, they say, and it is producing what McGovern termed in his acceptance speech a political ferment comparable to "the eras of Jefferson, Jackson and Roosevelt." "We're just trying to ride the waves that are coming in," explains one of McGovern's top theorists, Fred Dutton, a lawyer who advised both John and Robert Kennedy...
...Polaroid is anything but a conventional corporate giant. It has no long-term debt, because Land is convinced that he should be "financially conservative and technologically audacious." In Cambridge, the company seems to feed on the intellectual and technological ferment of neighboring Harvard and M.I.T.-where Land occasionally teaches courses in specialized sciences-and sometimes on social ferment as well. Soon after the Kent State killings in 1970, Polaroid employees were invited to send any message of their choosing to President Nixon at company expense; some 2,200 did so. Polaroid technicians have gone to extreme lengths to protect...
...best attain when he has available a foundation of scientific fact concerning the ancestral cultures of Africa and the survival of Africanism in the New World". There is no question that when such a body of facts is firmly and scientifically established, it can create an intellectual ferment that, when popularly diffused, can change prejudices and stereotypes about the blackman in the diaspora, and thus contribute to a lessening of interracial tensions. Furthermore, there is today in America an acute need for an understanding of the problems of development in the nations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The study...
...damn thing out of town, or he can bring it into New York and play it on a six-matinee-a-week schedule. In either case, no matter how much effort goes into salvaging the show, this is one case where the Sugar just ain't goin' to ferment...