Word: youngquist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...victory for Carter, at best. The University of Chicago's Norman Nie found both men "extremely careful not to step on a single toe and not to make a single error, and I don't think people are particularly attracted to that." Marquette University's Wayne Youngquist lamented that neither came out with anything new, making it "even harder for voters to make up their minds." But Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset thought the debate ''will serve to confirm people in their choices. If they haven't made choices, it will probably confirm them...
...themselves Democrats (the rest are self-styled independents). While Reagan backers insist that their man is now showing he can attract independents and Democrats, his following so far seems to be a narrowly based conservative bloc. "If Reagan succeeds in putting this coalition together," observes Marquette University Sociologist Wayne Youngquist, "it's not going to be a new majority, it's going to be a new minority...
...leadership. Contends George Reedy, the astute former press secretary to Lyndon Johnson: "The real issues in the campaign are spiritual rather than economic and social. The average American today is lost. He doesn't know what to believe, where to go, what to do." Marquette University Sociologist Wayne Youngquist calls these spiritual concerns collectively a "metaissue-an issue above issues. It involves tone, honesty, decency, truthfulness, morality, religion...
...Last week resignations poured in upon the White House as Republican officials quit before the oncoming Democratic tide. Joshua Reuben Clark Jr. stepped out as Ambassador to Mexico. James Clifton Stone surrendered the chairmanship of the Federal Farm Board. Gustaf Aaron Youngquist, appointed as the Department of Justice's Dry hope, resigned as Assistant Attorney General...
...Said Mr. Youngquist: "The law-enforcing agencies of Government . . . are not much more than the framework in an organization of the kind required . . . one agent to every 70,000 [inhabitants]. The utter impossibility of making enforcement effective by that means alone is at once apparent. . . . And the States have machinery ready to work. . . . The number [of State officers] is probably near 175,000 now, as compared with a force of 1,750 agents in the Bureau of Prohibition...