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...racists. Birchers, and National Review brand ideologues but because he had the whole-hearted, deepthroated support of the long-time Republican party worker, who has his own, somewhat different ideology. These workers feed on the 15 and 30-year-old dogmas that still dominate Republican thinking. Even Republican "liberals" nourish these beliefs when they seek those necessary votes in Rockford, Illinois or Phoenix
...like Kuchel in California and Javits in New York, faces pressure to give up his seat to run for governor--an office that has the patronage necessary to nourish the party organism. He does not want to run, as he cannot "see the obligation." But he refuses to make a categorical disclaimer. Clearly his uncertainty comes from a fear that unless the moderates set the policy and hire the servants, 1964 might be repeated...
With only 275 million acres of tillable soil (the rest is too cold, mountainous or arid), Peking's planners have only one-third of an acre from which to nourish each stomach; whereas in other countries the ratio is two or three acres per person. With fertilizer still in short supply, rations continue slim...
...facts of the composer's life. Thayer decided to set the record straight while he was still a graduate student at Harvard, and the effort occupied him for the rest of his life. On the theory that "an ounce of historical accuracy is worth a pound of rhetorical nourish," he went abroad in 1849 and roamed the Continent, rummaging through archives, talking with surviving Beethoven friends, old violinists and singing teachers, unearthing old letters and deciphering the scrawls and hieroglyphics in the composer's notebooks...
Gallup's prediction of victory through brain power derives from scientists' estimate that the average Western man uses only 2% to 5% of his mental capacity. Gallup argues that exercising the intellect with weighty issues will toughen flabby thinking, nourish creativity, enlarge perception. Yet Gallup's own thinking is so vague, his theories so contradictory, that the result is simply a plea for mental uplift with very little to support...