Word: consensus
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...sheer despair" he plunged into a new opera, The Flaming Angel-a manic-depressive nightmare set to unmelodic music. Last week, like some dark specter returned to haunt the scene of the crime, the opera was given its U.S. premiere by the enterprising New York City Opera company. Consensus was that even if America is now old enough, it is still not ready to embrace Angel as opera...
...this faculty..., with its own set of strengths and weaknesses, could best use its resources to illumine and improve the quality education." Financed by a $25,000 grant from the Carnegie Fundation, the committee conidered everything from the mild-reforms to the most radical. After it had reached a consensus, German Israel Scheffler drafted a report that was released last week now it will be debated by the faculty. Excerpts from the Scheffler Report appear below...
...Administration and its policy-makers to recognize the spirit and intelligence he represents. Or, like Stevenson before him, this man--who forsaw the cataclysm of the Bay of Pigs, who forsaw the neutralism of Tito, who now for-sees more Santo Domingos--can fall silent and allow the Consensus to engulf and encyst...
...they went home exhausted, having written, debated and amended 107 resolutions on every subject under the sun. The resolutions comprise an intermittently coherent body of thought which, though probably to the left of the average, reflects fairly accurately the consensus among politically active and aware college students...
Several faculty members pointed out that the report already represented a consensus. Members of the Committee on the Graduate Study of Education--forming an approximate cross-section of the faculty--twice commented on drafts, and the entire faculty discussed a summary last...