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...genuine two-party system in Texas politics. Coolly watching the Democratic fight from the sidelines, Tower says simply that he "welcomes support from wherever it occurs." No easy target, Candidate Carr, 48, piled up more votes (1,900,000) in 1964 than any other office seeker in the state's history. All the same, there are some 30,000 to 40,000 hard-core liberal Democratic voters. In a tight race, they could well ditch what they derisively call Connally's "used Carr...
...Kenistoji, is not the beats and the draft-card burners, whose revolutionism is only beard-deep, but a new breed of "professionalists." They are the "academically committed young men and women, who value technological, intellectual and professional competence above popularity, ambition or grace." The professionalist is not a status seeker, for he has already arrived. He prizes "the expertness of the man rather than the man himself" because this is what really counts in the "bureaucratized and organized society" in which he lives...
...mimic in Second City revues, where she did a host of impressions in a night. If Julie has always seemed all of a piece, Barbara appears as a battalion of selves. Nearly everyone who knows her knows three or four Barbaras-the constant clown, the achingly insecure truth seeker, the girl who's always on, the girl who is lost without a mask...
...dinner for him. Unidentified girls sat on couches and beds and said nothing; they were never introduced. Occasionally one of the Boys would deferentially light a girl's cigarette or send her out to buy dinner. The policeman on duty showed up about every 15 minutes with an autograph seeker. The first time, Dennis's mother quietly reminded him, "Stand up, Denny," and he walked forward to shake hands with a very drunk English teacher attending a convention in the hotel. She wanted his autograph for her two daughters and blubbered fervent thank you's for several minutes while...
Princeton's Episcopal chaplain, the Rev. Rowland Cox, believes that students shy away from the open convert seeker or "the guy who wants to gimmick around with your life." "Our job is people," says the Rev. Harold Cooper, one of the Protestant chaplains at the University of Massachusetts, "and the idea is not to bring them into the fold but to help them live better lives as persons." Most chaplains today shun even such an old-fashioned evangelistic idea as a "Religious Emphasis Week"; they talk about God only when the students want to. Church-sponsored activities, often organized...