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...August heat, the American side of the cold war was momentarily envious of the Soviet space performance, flash-angry over a hijacked plane, and irritated by Castro. But a kind of consensus seemed to have been reached about Berlin -that the issue had to be pressed, and that if it was. something might well be won. Reporters at his press conference were hard put to get any headline news out of President John Kennedy's deliberately muted statements about Berlin. In Paris. NATO's foreign ministers wound up talks about ways to beef up Western Europe...
...collection may help speed the change in critical attitude toward the poet. It is not likely that Graves will ever be ranked with Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Auden and Thomas-poets whom he once declared, with ringing wrongheadedness, to be unworthy of their idolaters. By current critical consensus, his title to the position just below these five is firm, but "below" is not really the word; it is "apart...
...over, the climate was noticeably warmer. Not that everyone was convinced. Says State Republican Chairman Stephen Shadegg, strategist and speechwriter for Senator Barry Goldwater: "I still think that the church should not apply itself to political situations that have merit on both sides." But Mayor Mardian summed up the consensus: "If Miller is head of the N.C.C., it can't be as bad as it's been looking in the press. He's active in politics, a conservative, and has evidently been raising money for the Republican Party...
...unsatisfactory-but the Kirov productions of Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake easily made up for it. Substantially different from the version offered by Britain's Royal Ballet (the famous fish dives were omitted from the pas de deux in Act III), the Kirov Sleeping Beauty was by general consensus more graceful than any ever seen on an English stage. Again the company avoided the driving finishes that are the Bolshoi's hallmark, but in this case, the Kirov impressionist technique seemed far better tailored to the material...
...real reason why none of this data exists is that there is nothing approaching consensus on what it would mean if it were compiled. Criteria are no more available than the data...