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Beside the Point
B., R. | October 28, 1950 issue

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The Republican Party is working its way toward something big in the U.S. Instead of depending on heredity and luck to bring embryo politicians into the right fold, the GOP has been operating sporadic seminars called Schools for Politics. A required course for getting around embarrassing questions. Various devices are explored and practiced, such as the side-tracking anecdote, the counter-question, the partial reply and half-truth. Special attention is given to the reply-by-exposing the questioner's-past, and students are drilled in how to reflect indignant pleasure that the question has been asked. Advanced students are trained to talk for as long as an hour without making a point.

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POLITICAL parties; POLITICAL candidates; STUDENTS; EDUCATION, Higher; SEMINARS; UNITED States
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