Word: consensus
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What he did with them, and the way they sang and acted for him when the curtain was up would be remembered a while at the Met. The orchestra was elegantly incisive, and the singers were spiritedly convincing. The critics' consensus: Reiner had done it again...
Again & again the Pope implied that he was defending not only the rights of the Catholic Church, but generally the "rights of religion which this valiant prelate tirelessly propounded . . ." He cited the ''unanimous consensus of free peoples, expressed . . . even ... by those who do not belong to the Catholic Church...
...Coiffure. He began interviewing teachers and students, principals and athletic coaches. In their consensus, San Antonio's 26 fraternities and sororities were a good deal worse than a nuisance. "They have ceased to be social groups," one principal told him. "They have become gangs." The kids' societies were going in for lavish parties in downtown hotels. Some of them cost as much as $25 a head. One boy had been nabbed for stealing a watch. His reason: to get some money to pay his dance assessment...
...rump caucus was New York's homespun, able Irving Ives. As a freshman Senator two years ago, he made a, successful fight against some of the more rigorous measures which Taft had tried to write into the Taft-Hartley Act.† Said Ives: "Rightly or wrongly, the consensus of opinion of many Republicans is that the party under Bob is not going forward. We are in a state of suspended animation...
...occasion of a new labor law is a challenge to establish the principle that henceforth the legal framework of collective bargaining shall be shaped largly by the consensus of labor and management...