Word: pollstergeist
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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George Gallup is haunted by a pollstergeist. He is possessed by the notion that if enough people are polled on enough subjects, the truth about disease, happiness, longevity, poverty, politics and war will soon become obvious. Then, armed with facts, the population need only use its untapped brain power to usher in "a higher plane of civilization" that would make classical Greece or the Renaissance look like cultural wastelands by comparison. "All that is required," Gallup asserts with Panglossian optimism, "is a firm belief in man's great potentialities and a readiness to accept change...
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