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...policy session. Said House Majority Leader McCormack: "It is about time the Administration got out of its dream world and into the world of reality." Said Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson: "The Administration needs a big dose of urgency." Privately, the Republicans felt much the same way. The general consensus was that the Administration had a long way to go before its ideas were whipped together into a salable congressional program-though time is rapidly running...
This year, as usual, the sideline critics who pick All-America football teams looked back over the season, squabbled over local favorites, but in the end agreed on enough names to field an unusually fine team. The consensus, notable for its light list of West and East Coasters...
...Studio from the Edwardian era." The occasion was the first exhibition of Soviet graphic art in London since the honeymoon days of World War II. After critics had a good look at the 130 works by 14 artists, picked by the Union of Artists of the U.S.S.R., the consensus was: considerable competence, little fire. "There is no hint here," said the Times, "of a Bakst, a Chagall, or a Kandinsky...
...overwhelming consensus of opinion among my constituents clearly indicates that they would prefer that the junior Senator from Oregon concentrate his efforts at renaming national forests within the state of Oregon, thus leaving Idahoans free to enjoy the colorful names of Idaho areas," Dworshak cited six letters, concluding "I see no reason for changing the name...
Pleased with the critics' favorable consensus of opinion on his book, Evans this week is going to Europe with his wife for a short vacation. "I don't like vacations." he confesses. "They bore me." The quite unique reason why he is bored by vacations: "They cost a hell of a lot of money, when you could be more comfortable at home and accomplish something. I'm past the age when I can enjoy looking at ruins." But Grammarian Evans will have one consolation on his trip. Says he: "I'm going to take along...