Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consensus of opinion was taken as to what field of experimentation would be most interesting to the group as a whole, and color photography met with general approval. Other choices were photographic optics, composition of pictures, technique of development and printing, and moving pictures...
...Critical consensus, while it writes off Gertrude Stein's less comprehensible utterings as a public loss, grants that she has been a private gain to more intelligible writers, and that her influence on contemporary literature has been vicariously potent. Serious critics take her seriously, even when they cannot understand what she is doing. Says Critic Wilson: "Most of us balk at her soporific rigmaroles, her echolaliac incantations, her half-witted-sounding catalogs of numbers; most of us read her less & less. Yet, remembering especially her early work, we are still aware of her presence in the background of contemporary...
...consensus of opinion favored Cambridge because of the feeling of academic culture and aristocracy. Out of 145 answers 107 had a favorable impression, 27 disliked it because it was too much like a city, and nine reported that it would be all right if it were not near Boston...
...away from him because they felt he had Red sympathies. Leo Blech who is a Jew has been permitted to keep his Berlin State Opera post because Kaiser Wilhelm gave it to him. But it is doubtful if Chancellor Hitler will want to grant Blech any more favors. Consensus last week was that most of the Festival performances would be directed by Karl Elmendorff, Bayreuth's staff conductor, a man of mediocre talent who in past years has turned out stupid performances shoddily rehearsed...
...Brooks House is acting as the local representative of the Intercollegiate Disarmament Council, which will tabulate the results of the polls as they are to be conducted throughout the country. The results will be presented to President Roosevelt in the form of a giant petition which will represent the consensus of opinion of college men and women everywhere...