Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Opinion Pollster George Gallup released soundings on the two assumptions. From coast to coast, union members and farmers were asked to express presidential preference in a trial heat between Stevenson and Eisenhower. For Democrats the labor response was chilling. Between the 1936 and 1948 elections, less than 30% of union members went Republican. In 1952 Eisenhower got 39%. Last week's survey, apparently reflecting a feeling of rank-and-file wellbeing, gave Ike a clear majority...
There is another reason, too, why Catholics should follow Legion of Decency listings: to "increase the impact of Catholic opinion on film producers and theaters. In unity there is strength . . . The annual pledge accentuates the social dimension of the legion's purpose...
...appointing Cheever and by otherwise demonstrating his sincere respect for alumni, as well as by his actions on such policy issues as the McCarthy attacks, Pusey has made himself very popular among University graduates. In the opinion of a current member of the Board of Overseers, he already has built up more confidence and support among the alumni than any previous Harvard President...
Their most effective argument on Cyprus is pragmatic: by its hold "at whatever cost" policy, the Tories deepen the hostility of people who had once been their friends, antagonize world opinion-and are not succeeding in their aim of breaking the revolt...
...common themes; e.g., the Northern Negro is most heavily hit by private-housing barriers imposing geographical segregation that often makes a farce of the North's free dom from segregation in the schools. They also told a story of progress, pointed out that the weight of Northern opinion and law supports the Negro's fight for first-class citizenship-in contrast with the Deep South's defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court's integration decision. Wrote the Chicago Tribune's Reporter Ottley: "There are Negroes who complain that progress in the North is slow. Some...