Word: consensus
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...Professor Theodore Brameld can keep on writing phrases like "the social consensus of the majority," he will be untroubled by educational "essentialists" in his reconstructed society. They will all be dead of tautological suffocation...
...week at the University of Michigan's annual Conference on Aging, the only such regular meeting in the country, 700 experts from the medical and social sciences put their heads (many greying) together to see what could be done in making Browning's vision a reality. The consensus: there must be imaginative and vast new developments on the social and economic fronts to forestall a future crisis of aged in the U.S., and the major attack on the problems of aging must be medical. That is the key to the others...
Since there are no absolutes, says Brameld, truth is only what the majority says it is. The task of both school and society is to determine what goals men should strive for by appealing to "social consensus." Though the individual must be encouraged, "our aim is always to build a 'group mind' that expresses the social consensus of the majority." The all-embracing value for the individual, says Brameld, is "social self-realization," and that comes only when each man comes "to grips with the realities of our group-centered culture...
...Lippmann denounced the "Jacobin heresy" of the modern democracies, which insists that the New Man will be born out of his emancipation from authority. What is needed, said Lippmann, is a return to the idea of natural law, for with the disappearance of this public philosophy-"and of a consensus on the first and last things -there was opened up a great vacuum in the public mind, yawning to be filled...
...beaming clown. His denunciation of Social Democrats played hob with the Communists' seductive pleas for a Popular Front (see box); his truculent assertion of Russian nuclear capacity spoiled his peace-loving professions, and stole the play from his skillful offer of profitable East-West trade. The British consensus is that Georgy Malenkov is an able fellow and Bulganin an amiable second-rater, but that Khrushchev is a crude, crafty and headlong ruler who must be watched and cannot be trusted...