Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Odds (quoted by Gallup's American Institute of Public Opinion): "Dear Alben...
...contrast to some press writers who have accused me of blaming Depression II on the sunspots, it is refreshing to find your comment [TIME, July 11] that in my book on sunspots I "ventured the opinion that sunspots may affect human psychology, etc." I especially appreciate your italics...
Another of James Prince's notions was that the way to find your spiritual counterpart was to breathe deeply. To public opinion, that sounded like Free Love. The stories of how Dinah went every day to the laboratory to nurse the Machine made things worse. One day a mob arrived at the Temple, burned a few buildings, destroyed the Machine and sent James Prince packing. But Isaiah got Dinah and it looked as if the Temple would carry...
...other novel, Enchanted Avenue and a mystery, Five Fated Letters (under the pseudonym Dana Scott), was born in the house of her grandfather, John Humphrey Noyes, founder of famed Oneida Community (1842 to 1880), one of whose concerns was breeding the Superman; consequently it was kicked around by public opinion till it was changed to a corporation which now manufactures silverware. The Templers are as authentic as a composite photograph. Everything in Seek-No-Further but the happy ending actually happened in one of the two dozen or so 19th Century communities which tried table-rapping and socialism...
...long as we are resigned to crooked ness and waste in government, we will continue to have a wasteful government. As long as we depend upon intellectual trick ery instead of truth, we will continue to have crowd psychology and propaganda, instead of well-informed public opinion...