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...issues; his opponents stir their followers with appeals to passion. Extremist Paisley, for instance, calls O'Neill a "traitor and a tyrant," and his followers delight in scrawling "F-k the Pope" on boardings. Only the extremist factions received any real psychological lift from the elections, an ill omen for the troubled country...
...Becker said that Nixon is too unpopular in the state to be a threat to Wallace's constituency. According to a spring poll conducted by Becker, 48 per cent of Massachusetts voters have an unfavorable opinion of Nixon. Pollsters consider any negative rating over 25 per cent a fatal omen for a state-wide candidate...
Last month, for example, when RUS was not invited to the first College Council meeting, most students considered it an omen of RUS's doom. The meeting was held before classes started in September, and Mrs. Bunting explained that RUS representatives had not been invited because students were not yet back in Cambridge. While no one should ignore the possibility of subtler reasons, no one except the College Council will ever be able to do better than guess at them. RUS members were "irritated, but not angry" at not being invited. Mrs. Bunting argued that the tension came from...
...country." Humphrey seemed to get a slightly warmer reception than Kennedy, but the U.A.W. is officially remaining neutral. At week's end in Omaha, Humphrey and Kennedy again shared an audience-Democratic notables at a Jefferson-Jackson dinner-and again McCarthy was elsewhere. It seemed to be an omen of the way the preconvention campaign would develop in the next three months...
...sands of mediocrity have sometimes silted over the theater for 2,000 years-for example, between the titans of Greek tragedy and the genius of Elizabethan England. The lackluster quality of contemporary U.S. playwriting and the dearth of substantial new talent are simply a gap rather than an omen. The conventional and obvious scapegoat is Broadway, but this is pure fallacy: Broadway, with all its faults, has presented, honored and sustained every major U.S. playwright...