Word: consensus
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...Jules Pfeiffer) reached Broadway after five years of racketing about the country (TIME, March 29, 1943). Before running up the curtain, Producer Pfeiffer set a Broadway precedent by running down the play. Said his outsize newspaper ads: "The management of Maid in the Ozarks believes that the . . . critical consensus will be that this . . . is the worst play that has ever hit Broadway...
...workingmen morally obliged to join a union?" asked the exam. The priestly consensus: a qualified yes. "Certainly all those who enjoy benefits gained by a union are obliged to join and protect the welfare of themselves and others...
...expressed for the leftist complexion such an organization might assume, but only one vote was ultimately registered in dissent. The Council will meet again Thursday for a final deciding vote on the proposal, and President Thomas L. P. O'Donnell '47 declared it was "not unlikely" that the consensus of last night's gathering would be followed...
Newspaper consensus agreed that the House had gone too far, that the sudden collapse of controls would usher in a period of violent and costly price fluctuations for hard-pressed consumers. But some placed at least part of the blame on OPA's reluctant retirement back to a free economy and its failure to wipe out inequities and obstacles to production...
Sample question which the girls asked each other in a refined way: "What do you think of a couple going steady not for heavy necking but because they like each other and really have fun?" The consensus, after deliberation: it is better for a girl to have "loads of boy friends" and go with them in groups...