Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shaken by Nixon and Alcorn, the President ordered Alcorn to make a top-secret survey of Republican sentiment at a forthcoming national committee meeting in Chicago. Alcorn's finding: a near-unanimous opinion that Adams must...
...Student Council survey conducted last spring revealed that a majority of the students polled favored Harvard's remaining in N.S.A. Though the results of this poll are far from conclusive, they constitute the only definite indication of student opinion on N.S.A. Yet the Council--which considers itself a representative of student feeling--saw fit to ignore this poll entirely...
Lighting up the first Horizon's 152 pages this week are captious musical memories of Composer Igor Stravinsky, an exuberant, perkily illustrated survey of pioneer ballooning, and 16 pages of photographs suggesting the glory of the earth's creation. Energetically but less successfully, Horizon embraces such -ho-hum items as a spoof on wine snobbery, a mystique-ridden study of why men climb mountains. It also carries a long-winded sneer at the Beat Generation, including abstract expressionist painters. But in another article it acknowledges that Abstract Painter Willem de Kooning is among the nation's bestsellers...
...hall in Emerson A will smirk smugly at 138a's talk of being and angst while they doodle rigorously with 140's metamathematical p's and q's. The literati, both serious and dilantante, will feel all the agonies of existentialist Choice themselves in deciding between Harbage's survey of Shakespeare in Room 18, 2 Divinity Avenue, and Brower's reading in Yeats, Eliot, Frost, and Stevens in the Longfellow Alumnae Room...
Little Rock's 45-50 Roman Catholic priests declined to participate in the survey, but though their church's position is clear, many of them could be classified as passives (see below). Most of Little Rock's ministers indignantly rejected Psychologist Pettigrew's report. Said the president of the Little Rock Ministerial Alliance, Dr. Dale Cowling, a Baptist and clearly a "power": "The ministers in the main churches exhibited a strong kind of courage during the crisis...