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...their final votes was never a straight line-it took Senator Brooke, for one, five weeks to come around-constitutes the miracle. There are times when one wishes that Harris had pressed senators more closely on their individual revelations. What were the reasons behind Margaret Chase Smith's "nay," for instance. Decision is a mosaic of the telephone calls, the speeches, the cloakroom chats, the evidence and the gaffs that were mobilized against Carswell...
...which their decision would be based not on the dictates of politics, but drawn out of that fuzzy world of human merit. Decision making is a power that men shrink from. Men, and senators too, will go far afield in looking for the situation where the ay or nay is clear and one has only to follow. Repression is a siren with a loud wail and a jailer's heart. Harris hears in the distance police sirens coming for America...
Last year an intensive drive by citizen groups concerned about ecology and national priorities nearly doomed continued development of the U.S. supersonic transport aircraft. After the Senate voted nay, the plane was temporarily saved by a House-Senate compromise extending funds through March of this year. With that mandate about to expire, the battle has been joined once more. This time the SST's supporters have mounted a highly professional counterattack that threatens to overwhelm the aircraft's critics...
...concert, then fail to advertise it. When the failure to advertise succeeds and few tickets are sold, you off the concert and assume that the people who did buy tickets won't mind not knowing. After all, might they not have easily enough intuited that cancellation was imminent (nay inevitable) inasmuch as there had been no effort to sell tickets...
...critics express when American talent begins to fade comes from the fact that artists, in a romantic critical view, are not supposed to act like "normal people"; thus, when Huston cashes in on his name, he is accused of "selling out" to commercial enterprise. It is something we tolerate-nay, inculcate in our society, even while recognizing its basic immorality. A figure who enjoys making films and making money equally well is an easy target for guilt-ridden liberals...