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...motivate us to start making a real mark on the world, it also introduces trouble on the horizon. And I'm not talking about the usual effects of a recession: the blow-dried reporters tromping through small-town cafes, trying to coerce a little vox out of the unemployed populi who glare suspiciously at them; nor am I alluding to eyeball-glazing newspaper business features led by headlines like, "Whither Textiles?" I'm referring to what happened the last time there was a burp in the economy, in the early 1990s: the transformation of harmless activism into foot-stomping fanatacism...
Beys, with deliciously self-mocking wit, explained that the council must vote itself more money, because that was the will of the students. He cited a curious survey, supposedly conducted long ago ("last year) to confirm his premonitions as vox populi...
...just below Henderson are the people of Cooke City, each of them, in winter, a full 1% of the vox populi. Everyone agrees the 400 or so summer people are mostly against the mine, but summer people don't count here or anyplace else. Winter people, real Cooke City people, are split more or less down the middle. Jack Williams, a folk artist who was hurt years ago in a mine cave-in, favors Crown Butte, and so does his wife Bertie. Carpenter Jim Barrett, head of a homegrown environmental group called the Beartooth Alliance, objects to being pushed around...
Almost no one reckoned properly with two other voices, Thespis and the vox populi, or word of mouth. Thespis spoke in the golden tongues and skills of the R.S.C., which is the most formidable assemblage of actors in the English-speaking world. And the word of mouth? Ecstatic. By Nov. 2, the entire run was sold out. In the past few weeks, scalpers have reportedly commanded $170 per ticket, but practically speaking, tickets do not exist. Even for the insider's insider, there are no strings left to be pulled. At one recent New York City-area funeral...
Once thought to be crutch for lovable the "biggies" have by vox populi been adopted by those who play competitive tennis as well as those of high society enjoy tennis foe its social value. Spectators at this year's U.S. Open, for instance, saw more than one-third of the competitors topspinning, lobbing, and winning with oversized--but no longer ostracized racquets...