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Though the board had signally dented his consensus, Johnson managed to ap pear equally amiable. "We all recognize the Federal Reserve is a board of experts in money and marketing," he remarked mildy. "And I make no pre tense to being a monetary expert. Even experts have a division of opinion 4 to 3, and we do have division all the time within the Government...
...whole. By working together, says Dr. John K. S. Reid, an observer from the World Alliance of Reformed and Presbyterian Churches, "the council has enabled the Roman Catholic Church to form a common mind. At the first session nothing was decided. In the final session, a real consensus had grown...
...difference between Kennedy and Johnson [Nov. 26] is the difference between a call for sacrifice and a quest for shallow consensus, between hope and concern for the future of mankind and a total preoccupation with the next piece of domestic legislation, between a man and a politician. Kennedy reflects the majesty that was Rome and the intellect that was Greece. Johnson reflects the paternalism and arrogance that is Texas...
...most important problems will be persuading the teaching men to give upper level Gen Ed courses: "They like to specialize, you know. It's so difficult to be sure what really converts consensus into action. I don't think any rule requiring 10% [of a department's teaching time] will do any good. I've just got to have faith that when they voted they weren't just saying. 'Gee this is a damn good plan, let the other guy teach the gen ed course!'" Another problem will be designating the departmental courses: "ensuring that the lower level and upper...
...picture as a whole and the reasons for their classification, at other times to discuss the moral implications of a specific point. The Sandpiper, for example, raised a question about religion: Was there thematic justification for making Richard Burton an Episcopal priest rather than a layman? The consensus was yes, but the Legion gave the movie a disapproving B because the Christian (Burton) seems to lose out morally to the naturalist (Elizabeth Taylor...