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...grant of power, but whether it can frame a coherent policy for current problems. Basically, the facult, if any fault there is, is not the agencies' but the legislature's; and the indecision of the legislature reflects ultimately the inability and unwillingness of the public to achieve a consensus. Perhaps this means simply that the problems are not sufficently acute to overcome American political intertia. It is childish to make a scapegoat of the agencies, and nothing could be more ludicrous--and characteristic--than the proposal in question. I propose that the Commitee meet once a week in silent self...
...seven "not distinguished" fields of study at Harvard were Fine Arts, French, Geography, German, Linguistics, Physiology, Spanish and Italian. The Tribune said that "these ratings represent the consensus of outstanding scholars and scientists in each subject." The newspaper cautions, however, that the absence of a "distinguished rating does not imply weakness...
Throughout all the negotiations, there has been an East-West consensus that disarmament, being begun in an atmosphere of mutual distrust, must proceed by stages. Each stage would have to be completed to the satisfaction of all participants, before any further progress could be made. The lesson of Yalta has been well learned, perhaps too well for the summit conference to have had much effect on East-West relations...
...account is thus personal rather than institutional. White says, "the Senate is in a sense a high assembly but in a deeper sense it is a great and unique human consensus of individual men." And so he looks at the Senate, ninety-six inscrutable prima donnas, "with all its strengths and weaknesses rather as one would try to deal with the story of an extraordinary and significant...
...went to Yale, Harvard or Princeton, it was a simple matter to pick one generally accepted All-America team. Now so many men from so many schools are touted as champs that picking All-Americas has become as common a year-end pastime as kissing under the mistletoe. The consensus this year...