Word: consensus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...chief of staff, Alexander Haig, to poll the White House senior staff and others for their thoughts on what he should say and how he should say it. Suggestions ranged, as one staff member later described it, from "mea culpas to a two-fisted hard-line approach." But the consensus was that the speech should be "moderate, dignified, strong in adherence to principle and hopefully presidential in character." Nixon's legal advisers, J. Fred Buzhardt, Leonard Garment and Charles Alan Wright, went to work on a statement that was to be released simultaneously with the TV speech. The statement...
...Nixon Administration blocked reappointment of Witteveen's predecessor, Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, a Frenchman, because U.S. officials felt that he had taken sides against the U.S. The monetary atmosphere, however, is becoming less testy. Last week an IMF committee representing 20 nations made much progress toward a consensus on outlines of a reformed system. Moneymen are optimistic that a written agreement on the bases of a new system can be approved at the IMF annual meeting next month...
Some Republican Senators are growing increasingly restive. Both Republican minority leaders, the Senate's Hugh Scott and the House's Gerald Ford, counseled Nixon to release the tapes. New York's Conservative Senator James Buckley said: "I think the consensus of the American people will be that the President, while he has the right to exercise the [Executive] privilege, ought not to be exercising it." His brother, Columnist William F. Buckley, wrote last week: "The argument of Executive privilege is too abstract and too implausible to capture the popular imagination. [Americans] will take the President...
...contemporary criticism. Here, the critic assumes that his job is to smell out the con. So what he likes he deems "real art," what he doesn't is "anti-art" or "non-art." But this means that when a certain critic goes against the grain of the general consensus and pronounces something "bad" already determined by the others to be "good," he is not only panning a specific work but he is broadcasting the fact that his colleagues have been hoodwinked, taken in by a fraud. For instance, Pauline Kael raves about Tango in Paris six months before the movie...
...Yakubu Gowon, the conference chairman, summed the situation up in his closing speech: "We have concluded our differences in a matter that baffles advocates of conventional diplomacy." Far from being "concluded," those differences remain perfectly real, papered over though they may be. That seems to be the O.A.U. way: consensus without clout...