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Quality is not an objective property of art works. It is a function of taste. And taste changes. Directors add their propositions to the long consensus a museum represents by buying, not by selling. A director must be either very lucky or a genius to break that consensus and create...
...Historically, our people have felt a curious ambivalence toward organized violence, for though our past is studded with conflagrations of all sorts, we still retain a commitment to orderly process. Strikes, ghetto rebellions and imperialist ventures abroad are viewed as aberrations, discordant notes in a harmony of cooperation and consensus...
However, the consensus of several doctors, lawyers and members of women's counselling groups this week was that the ruling completely invalidates Massachusetts laws regarding abortions. The question now is how the Legislature of a heavily. Catholic state will move to establish regulations in accordance with the high court's decision...
...departmental meeting on February 5 will be the first meeting since November 28. At that time, the consensus was that no decision would be made on the Kissinger vacancy until the end of President Nixon's first term...
...Phyllis Chesler, a self-styled anarchist who teaches psychology at the City University of New York. The militant wing of Women's Lib enthusiastically approves Author Chesler's attack, and some psychotherapists admit that there is a measure of truth in what she says. The consensus, however, seems to be that her charges are both overstated and underdocumented...