“Consider the death of Princess Diana. This accident involved an English citizen, with an Egyptian boyfriend, crashed in a French tunnel, driving a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian, who was drunk on Scotch whiskey, followed closely by Italian paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles, and finally treated with Brazilian medicines by an American doctor. In this case, even leaving aside the fame of the victims, a mere neighborhood canvass would hardly have completed the forensic picture, as it might have a generation before.” MightCasesGenerationsCarCitizensInvolvedFameDoctorsVictimMedicineMereLeavingAccidentsDrivenDrivingTreatedDrunkNeighborhoodItalianEnginesPrincessGlobalizationRoyaltyTunnelsWhiskeyMotorcycleDutchEgyptianPaparazziScotchDianaCar AccidentForensicsBelgiansDrunk DrivingScotch WhiskeyCanvassing Author:Mark Riebling
“Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing far the consulship and for the kingdom; yet all these passed away, and are nowhere.” MenGivingChildrenLittlesWarExamplePrideLoversLongingKingdomsSicknessHolidayPlotSuspicionAgricultureTrafficJoyousMarryingTransactionsPresent DayPassed AwayGiving InMisersFlattererInsolentEducating ChildrenCanvassing Author:Marcus Aurelius
“The propagandist must utilize all of the technical means at his disposal - the press, radio, TV, movies, posters, meetings, door-to-door canvassing...There is no propaganda as long as one makes use, in a sporadic fashion and at random, of a newspaper article here, a poster or radio program there.” MeanLongUseDoorsFashionTvsProgramPressesMeetingsRadioNewspapersPropagandaArticlesPostersPropagandistSporadicCanvassing Author:Jacques Ellul
“Rachel?” came Ivy’s voice from her room. “Where’s my sword?” “In the foyer where you left it last week when the evangelists were canvassing the neighborhood” LastsLeftVoiceRoomsWeekNeighborhoodIvyEvangelistsFoyersCanvassing Author:Kim Harrison
“Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.” LiteratureCausesEffectsNeededPacifistCanvassing Author:Fredrik Bajer
“There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.” PeopleKnowsStillsHardKnow HowDoorsRaisesElectionPhonesOrganizedCanvassing Author:Patricia Ireland