Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LEADERS must know what their people are thinking. If France's Charles de Gaulle or Columbia's Grayson Kirk had followed that simple rule, they might have saved themselves a lot of grief. Therein lies the chief justification for opinion polls. Yet there is also something vaguely troubling about the polls, those incessant readings of the U.S. voter's psyche...
...buttons. The President could ask for public opinion on any issue-Should the nation invest $50 billion to send men to Mars?-and the presumably informed electorate would flash back an immediate response. Technically, this is feasible right now. Automated democracy might dilute the power of a lot of Congressmen-no loss to democracy in some cases...
...there is also a little of the cynical, skeptical Voltaire in the Frenchman?and a lot of the stubborn, even violent individualist. Smug paternalism at home did not wear nearly so well as posturing abroad. The Gaullist panoply gradually began to enshadow and constrict every aspect of French life, from politics to morals, painting to fashion. The rhythm of French existence perceptibly altered. Hints of ennui crept in?and boredom has always been underrated as a revolutionary force. Paris was no longer the most richly alive city in Europe. Looking beneath the glittering surface of Gaullist France as long...
...middle-class white children. I wasn't really trying to describe Negro children or their view of the world. I wanted to describe through the activities of children how some of these confusing social and political events occur, what gets them going, how ambiguous and tentative and accidental a lot of them...
COLES: I know that this book will not be the easiest book for a lot of children to read, but I think it will get things going in their mind, even if they don't really totally comprehend everything that I had in mind when I was writing it--that it as least a beginning...