Word: opinions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sure to come. It has come, and wise newspaper readers are quickly learning to gift out some of the more flagrant stories. But there is another source of propaganda harder to spot, though no less influential. It is in the American pulpit and university, always powerful molders of public opinion. Within the past few weeks, the leaders of religion and education in this country have spoken with an amazing unanimity in strong support of the Allies. If vehemence is any test of sincerity, these men mean what they...
Last week Emil Hurja, still in Washington, was publishing a magazine, The Pathfinder. And James Twohey, having tried his hand at various private surveys, brought out his own weekly Analysis of Newspaper Opinion, using the same statistical methods he developed under Mr. Hurja. Twohey thinks his news statistics give at least a cursory indication of public opinion...
...further news last week on U. S. public opinion...
...gentilities of the Lowells and Longfellows, the transient Utopianisms of the Alcotts, the dated rhetoric of his contemporaries. What moderns can see, what his contemporaries missed, is that Thoreau meant what he said. He was, he declared, a "Realometer," working his feet "downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice and tradition, and delusion, and appearance ... to a hard bottom...
...surer ground had it endorsed embargo repeal, and frankly based its campaign for members on that ground. It would have commanded more confidence had it promised a definite stand on future issues, such as the extension of unlimited credit to the Allies. Of course, there will be difference of opinion; of course, a definite commitment will alienate portions of the League. But real unanimity is impossible; and attempts to cover disagreement under the mantle of generality amount to self-deception...