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...that need be said here is that distributional weights, as commonly understood in out professional literature, simply do not enter these dimensions.... In the end, then, we cannot condemn as crass or unfeeling the idea our profession's moving towards-a consensus based on the traditional criterion of efficiency. (Journal of Political; Economy, April...
From it all, a consensus seems to be developing. More arms we must have. And we must keep building world opinion against the Soviets. And we must recognize the need to change our lives, to conserve energy, to battle inflation. And we must keep talking to the Soviets about disarmament. "One thing we may all learn," declared one of the participants in the President's seminars. "We cannot keep living in a world where we do nothing else but build weapons...
...most of the interest in Kennedy is pathological, even among the town's sorely outnumbered Democrats. They speak of the man in the past tense, or if they speak to the future, it's about his chances of assassination. The consensus is that Chappaquiddick did him in: "People remembered more than he thought they would," one man says, and he is right. Jogging memories across the state, New Hampshire's biggest paper, The Manchester Union-Leader, last week ran the Washington Star series on Kennedy's dealings with long-legged rather mysterious Lana, a "European countess...
...consensus, reached after two days of meetings at Brown University in Providence, was seen by many Clamshell members as an affirmation of the tactics of the Coalition for Direct Action at Seabrook (CDAS), which attempted last October to occupy the nuclear plant under construction in Seabrook...
Material progress advanced handsomely enough, but the psychology of the decade seemed to follow a downward trajectory. A consensus was lost, and authority seemed to operate only erratically. The nation split into single-interest power factions. The screws of the American machine jarred loose; the whole thing rattled. Yet any such bleak view of the decade is not entirely justified. Norman Mailer has observed that Americans are obsessed by the question of whether they behave virtuously or not; the ambiguities of the '70s may disturb their moral self-image, and with it, their yearning for clear-cut conclusions...