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This freedom may be lost in many ways, of which the purges of the early fifties are only one. Such freedom may equally well be endangered by the American impulse towards consensus--the polite desire of every committee chairman to say: "we all agree that . . ." which among professors leads to voluntary conformity...
...physicists convening in New York heard an elaborate progress report on controlled fusion power. The consensus-practical H-power is still decades, perhaps generations away...
...remember him as pale, sickly, with "an extraordinary radiance." Last week the Camus radiance was back onstage, in one of the year's most exciting theatrical events: the opening in Paris of Camus' long-awaited dramatic version of Dostoevsky's The Possessed. Le Monde expressed the consensus of Paris critics: "A magnificent and stupendous spectacle...
Some thought it possible that after a month's rest at the kibbutz, Hlasko might change his mind about returning to Poland. Actress Sonja Ziemann indignantly insisted he would never go back. But the consensus of Polish exiles in West Germany was that if brilliant, helpless, homeless Marek Hlasko does not go back to Poland this time, he will sooner or later...
...predict the retailers who sell and the manufacturers who make the goods. At Chicago's annual winter home-furnishing and appliance show last week, 45,000 buyers, salesmen and manufacturers from 11,483 firms started writing orders for the new year and swapping predictions about the future. Consensus: with the economy very definitely on the upbeat, U.S. retail sales in 1959 should post a banner year. Said one Washington discounter, who ordered $1,000,000 worth of goods and reports a 35% jump in sales for the first eight days of 1959: "Last year the buyers at the show...