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...Critical consensus was that the Irish dramatist, well past his productive prime, had never been seen to better advantage...
...Claudius books, Alfred Neumann's The Devil, Lion Feuchtwanger's Power and Josephus, Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers the palm over such classics as Defoe's The Journal of the Plague Year, Tolstoy's War and Peace, Flaubert's Salammbo, critical consensus would be that the modern exponents are obviously better grade than run-of-the-mine romanticists like Walter Scott, Charles Reade et al. Lion Feuchtwanger's second volume on the Jewish Historian Josephus does not let his colleagues' standard down...
...presented no new operas but for old ones there was a brushed-up orchestra, a reorganized chorus, a new ballet troupe, an unusual amount of rehearsing. During the first week no less than eleven singers made debuts. Of the lot none was bad and most were better than average. Consensus was that the Opera had made an intelligent, hopeful beginning under new Manager Edward Johnson...
Throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas no reaction to what His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom had done was closer to the general consensus than the reaction of His Majesty's Government in the Dominion of Canada. Cried a Canadian Cabinet Minister close to Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King: "A shameless betrayal of the League! This will strengthen the hands of Canadian isolationists. After this, will anything seem important enough to take us out of our own continent...
Significance. Ethiopians charge credibly that some of Italy's photographic evidence is faked or miscaptioned. Yet it confronts the eye with nothing not attested by the consensus of all reports by historians and recent explorers of Ethiopia. In nearly all parts of Africa the lash remains a usual punishment for natives but proud obscenity and ignorant insanitation are on the wane wherever whites have colonized...