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...impossible to predict the exact expression the split in experience will take. But in view of the origins of support for totalitarian movements in the 1930's there is good reason for apprehension. Historians have usually attributed the stability of this country's political order to the ambiguity of class distinctions and the prevelance of common (middle-class) out-look. Though the split in experience could never destroy this stability, it could certainly weaken it. The war has thus brought out the worst in the draft and the draft has highlighted some of the most dangerous weaknesses in American society
STUDENT: Can you predict what words will be In for the theological year ahead...
Whenever the Supreme Court expands the rights of the accused, as it did in its famous 1963 Gideon decision requiring free lawyers for indigent felony defendants, pessimists predict that prisoners will win new trials based on the new rights...
...take them seriously up to a point, but pollsters have a long way to go in learning their trade," says William Roberts, partner in California's successful political public relations firm of Spencer-Roberts & Associates, which helped Ronald Reagan to victory. "In the meantime," he adds, "I predict they are going to keep on making a lot of money from all of us." That is one prediction that most pollsters particularly hope is true...
Common & Political Sense. Of course, the rosy resurgence would not be Latin if it did not include a few thorns. For one thing, it comes at a time when many predict that the country is headed for a recession. The tightness of credit has dried up cash, and consumers have little to spend. Christmas shopping is the slowest in memory. Worse still is the spreading fear that all the foreign money means that Brazil is losing its national identity. American advisers are so much in evidence at the economic ministry that Brazilians bitterly joke that more English than Portuguese...