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Unlike other protest singers who were able to maintain a sense of their own space in relation to their audience, Ochs was at one with his audience. His songs expressed a consensus of feeling on the issues of racism, war, and imperialism. His style, honest and direct, was well-suited to the attitude of the politically conscious in the early 1960s...
...employer of last resort-"but at an unattractive wage." The nation will surely be listening to much more argument about the bill as the presidential campaign heats up. But the hearings on it demonstrated that though full employment is a goal everybody desires, there is nothing resembling a consensus on how to reach...
...Kissinger sounded a bit oversensitive to criticism and unrealistic in expecting a consensus on world affairs in an election year, he nevertheless was focusing the debate on the more practical problems of global diplomacy. Though he mentioned no names, two of the hawkish critics he clearly had in mind reacted quickly. Said Republican Reagan: "I thought that in this country no public official was above and beyond public questioning." Democrat Jackson protested that Kissinger was the first Secretary of State in modern history to go "wandering around the country in the middle of the presidential primaries indulging in partisan politics...
What prompted Ahdab's demi-coup was the collapse of the fragile seven-week-old Pax Syriana-the Damascus-sponsored truce of Jan. 22. The authorities, charged Ahdab, had simply been unable to maintain order or begin to build a consensus in the divided country. This threatened to push Lebanon into renewed war between right-wing Christians and Moslem leftists. All last week gunmen again began erecting street barricades and kidnaping scores of civilians...
...those minutes (now withdrawn by the embarrassed visiting committee which is still in the process of writing the normal milquetoast pap that passes for governing board oversight) also seem to reflect a consensus on the panel--shared by many GSD faculty and students--that Kilbridge's administration has been a "receivership" and that "Kilbridge cannot provide continued intellectual leadership...