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McCree said yesterday that "in most areas there appeared to be consensus among members of the Committee." He added that the Committee would only meet again if there were specific areas of disagreement that had to be ironed...
There is a consensus that Afro-American Studies should not be only a joint concentration. To insist that Afro-American Studies should be only a joint concentration relegates it to a second-class academic pursuit. Furthermore, in order to have Afro-American Studies as part of a joint concentration it should not have to be the minor field as now required in Rules Relating...
Vigorous Security. The general consensus within industry and government is that to pay an extortionist's demands simply invites more attempts. But with a fleet of 239 planes and a daily passenger load of about 30,000 at this time of year, TWA may have felt that it had to make an attempt to deal with Gomez. A private plane, perhaps containing the $2,000,000, flew from New York to Atlanta. It returned to New York four hours later, and a nervous TWA spokesman subsequently said that Gomez had not been heard from again by week...
...exceptions. St. Joan wins martyrdom, and Major Barbara wins control of a munitions empire, both rather atypical social pursuits. And that tells us something. Drama is a reflexive, not an innovative art form, and a playwright can rarely advance much beyond the boundaries that society has reached in its consensus of values and acceptable roles...
...time waiting around for candidates, dashing around madly together to keep up with the campaign tour, eating meals together and sleeping in the same hotels, it is hardly surprising that the reporters, by discussing at length the events and the major issues throughout the day, should reach a consensus before their articles are written that night...