Despite valiant, if misguided, efforts to romanticize the role of a census bureau, it is not immediately obvious what political and substantive role a census plays in a polity.
It was a valiant attempt to reunite body and architecture - to put people before krypton atoms and the speed of light, to save mankind from the abstractions of pure science.
Players and spectators alike have only one thing in mind as the titans clash in valiant effort to defeat their opponents and win that cup at the end.
Valiant as our cottage-industry efforts were, we finally recognized that any effort short of a nationally co-ordinated massproduction effort would be inevitably overwhelmed by the inexorable rate of continuing deterioration.
In their introduction to the volume, the editors make a valiant, if ultimately doomed, effort to tie together the disparate strands from all these papers into a unified whole.
As a result, the coverage and the references in these two chapters are a superficial summary, albeit a valiant one.
Chapter 2 describes the digital encoding process, and in a valiant attempt to make the explanations simple, some unusual problems have crept in.
Yet, taken as a whole, this valiant effort is not wholly successful.
