Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While on paper the varsity heavies must be ranked behind Princeton, the prevailing opinion at Newell on the eve of the race is that the Crimson will avenge its earlier defeat at the hands of the Tigers. The varsity most certainly has improved since its race with the Tigers; the cogent fact will be, how much has Princeton improved...
...representatives, according to Wilson, contacted him the day after the University's decision to suspend Miss Smith from the cast. Wilson was quoted as saying that legislative opinion "had no bearing on the decision...
...second trial, at which he was convicted, were against him from the start and "lobbied" others over to their side. U.S. District Judge Henry W. Goddard, who presided at his second trial, was partial to the prosecution; the Appeals Court judge (Harrie B. Chase) who wrote the opinion denying his appeal failed to make a careful study of the, record, and developed "grave misconceptions" of the case...
...sentences of 14 Japanese war criminals, Menzies said genially but uninformatively: "The whole matter is being approached in a most liberal fashion." In the glum pause that followed, Menzies raised his comedian's shaggy eyebrows: "This is a remarkable silence!" A Japanese reporter asked: "Has Australian public opinion reached the point where you may welcome Orientals as temporary or permanent residents?" Said Menzies in cheerful reply: "No; speaking in the broad, there's no such indication...
...still new enough for its accuracy to be hotly debated. Packard quotes one practitioner of the penumbra art as saying: "It is about as far advanced as public-opinion polling was in the early '30s." But because it is subtler, and specifically because it deals with the unconscious, MR is probably far more influential than Gallup polling, and potentially more sinister. Psychologist Dichter offers a smooth line in defense: "Persuasion is education. Ideally people should never be influenced, but the fact is they are constantly influenced by parents, teachers, etc. . . . Creative discontent is wholesome; only when the goal...