Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Touch of Robin Hood. In the meantime, the success of his first book of poems salved his ego without going to his head: "When I read [Virgil's] Georgics, and then survey my own powers, 'tis like the idea of a Shetland Pony, drawn up by the side of a thoroughbred Hunter." He attracted patrons but he rarely kowtowed to them, feeling that it was a common hypocrisy with poets, "when their Patrons try their hand at a Rhyme, to cry up the Honorable or Right Honorable performance as Matchless, Divine...
Senator Joseph McCarthy? Judged solely from the opinions of the press and political speakers, the country would seem to be solidly united in a deep distaste for the Senator and "McCarthyism." But a Gallup poll survey last week failed to bear this out. The Canadians polled who knew of McCarthy and were willing to express their views were almost evenly divided on the issue...
...does foreign news get so little space? How good is foreign coverage? How do foreign papers themselves handle the news of other countries? To answer these questions, the International Press Institute this week published a 266-page report titled The Flow of the News, the most ambitious survey ever conducted on the subject of foreign news. I.P.I.'s study involved ten U.S. journalism schools, 177 dailies, 45 wire services, and interviews with hundreds of foreign correspondents, editors and wire-service executives...
...Renaissance, by Will Durant. Volume V of the ambitious popular survey of Western civilization which has engaged Historian Durant for nearly 25 years (TIME, Sept...
Members also intend to share the results of their poll with the faculty to help the administration gauge student opinion. Apart from the fact that such a sketchy survey can be of little worth or even misleading, the Council's intended procedure could be detrimental. Planning to examine all the answers before passing them on to the faculty, the Council would remove any charges which seem blatantly false. To do this is to set up an undergraduate jury, passing on any professor who, erroneously or not, might be mentioned as suspect. Any value that the poll might have...