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...however broad the consensus on this basic ideal, the actual program at Harvard has come under increasing fire since its adoption. And it was to meet these attacks and refurbish and redefine the program that the Doy Committee was appointed in 1962, thirteen years after the passage of the first program for General Education at Harvard...
Until San Francisco, in fact, the majority of the press occupied itself less with measuring the growth of the Goldwater movement than with repeatedly discounting Goldwater as a serious political force. This negative consensus survived even Goldwater's triumph in the California primary; the press interpreters counted the Arizona Senator out all over again when he voted against the civil rights bill. Almost to a man, journalists felt that Goldwater had isolated himself from his own party, which heavily supported the bill...
...quick to cut off speakers who go be yond their allotted ten minutes or stray from the point. But there was a more important reason for the council's smooth sailing: the growing sense of community and mutual responsibility among the bishops, and the emergence of a theological consensus that is prudently but overwhelmingly progressive. It is now clear that a vast majority of the prelates reject the abstract, legalistic theological language that has been spoken by Rome since the Council of Trent and favor a more pastoral, Scripture-centered approach...
Under specific fire from Day were President Johnson and "his supposedly liberal" administration. Terming the Civil Rights and Poverty Bills, "crumbs to the alienated," Day warned that Johnson's "broad party of consensus" threatens the civil rights movement with the same failure by inclusion which he feels has befallen American labor...
After hearing of the stalemate Monday afternoon, Vermont's Governor Hoff expressed to a group of FDP lobbyists the consensus of many Northern moderates: "Don't you recognize your responsibility to the Party and the country? When you're up against a Goldwater, you sacrifice for party harmony or lose not only Mississippi but the nation, maybe the world. I'm for you morally, but if you push this to the floor I'll vote against...