Word: voters
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...civil rights heroes. John Lewis, 35, the young apostle of nonviolence in the '60s, was arrested more than 40 times in civil rights demonstrations, and his skull was fractured at Selma in 1965. Since 1970 he has headed the Voter Education Project in Atlanta and helped register some 3.5 million blacks. As a Baptist seminarian, Lewis was kidded for talking up the Social Gospel, but he insists that some "immutable principles" must be at the base of the "Beloved Society" he envisions, and nonviolence is one of them. If a compassionate world is the end, he argues, "then...
Second, intellectuals need forcefully to introduce their special long-term vision into party and legislative deliberations which tend otherwise to focus upon immediate voter reaction, a flimsy guide to the management of a complicated society. Obviously, intellectuals also want to be reelected--but someone needs to state long-term goals and sometimes those goals may be the next year's voter appeal...
...naivete and sanctimony. Intellectuals in the legislative process are no longer self-conscious idealogues--they have begun to understand (the 60s and all that) the uses of non-ideology and the beauty of natural wisdom. They are somewhat more patient today than before with the frustrations of the average voter and have some understanding of how those frustrations must be dealt with if any goals are to be achieved...
...Criticism of CC '75 organization on campus seems equally inapposite. A small but hard-working group of undergraduates not only phoned the dorm room of every Harvard-Radcliffe student voter, but also stuffed every one of their mailboxes with a student-oriented "get-out-the-vote" leaflet on election...
...Election Commissioner Edward J. Samp Jr. said earlier this week, the students just didn't turn out. In the Harvard Square area, where nearly 500 new voters were added to the rolls, there was very little increase in voter turnout from the last municipal election. While nearly 60 per cent of all registered voters showed up at the polls, very few of the newly registered ones did. The strategy seems to have failed because there was no real commitment to Cambridge on the part of the young voters and because there was no Cambridge Convention '75 follow...