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...manufacture of the medals and plates. Danbury Mint, for example, commissioned the Medal-lie Art Co. to produce a $48 silver campaign medal with the profile of Richard Nixon on one side and George McGovern on the other (voters undecided between the two would then presumably be able to flip a coin). To raise funds for the National Audubon Society, the Franklin Mint made silver plates decorated with etchings of birds. The mint recently started a series of presidential plates for the White House Historical Association. Medals produced by Franklin last year earned the United Nations...
Yankelovich calls this the "halo effect," and believes it colors almost all the answers related to issues. One month ago, voters claimed, by a margin of 45 % to 28%, that McGovern would do more to see that minorities are treated "fairly." Now they have neatly flip-flopped on the issues, although nothing concrete has happened in the campaign to cause such a change: 42% now see Nixon as best able to deal with minorities, v. 31 % for McGovern. This makes little empirical sense, but for that very reason it bodes ill for McGovern. More and more, Nixon is gaining momentum...
...flip side of Archie," is the way Lear describes Maude. "She is a Roosevelt liberal who has her feet firmly planted in the '40s." Maude knows how to arrange all the right-thinking enlightened attitudes around herself, but when she is challenged they open up like gunwales on a galleon, and she blazes away with broadsides at feckless repairmen, greedy cab drivers and her priggish right-wing neighbor...
They are either glowingly optimistic or they are intensely pessimistic. There is no tragic sense of endurance and strength. That comes from a more cyclical and spiraling vision of history that doesn't flip back and forth between this kind of shallow optimism and shallow pessimism. It has a greater sense of the realities of human strength and growth...
...through the mess that's still going on, and the Jews throughout millenniums. It's a kind of capacity to endure. But now that we have reached the limits of one kind of technological expansion, there is a tendency on the part of progress-oriented thinkers to flip totally out and see lines going up or lines going down. It is more likely that the disintegration of one cultural structure is going to occur at the same time that the creation of another is going on, and that these things will be binary and paired...