Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Groups. The most conservative U.S. Lutheran group is the MISSOURI SYNOD, which regards the confessions not only as "a doctrinal standard" but as "kerygmatic and prayable, i.e., they belong in the pulpit and the pew. They are a doxology [and] establish the consensus with the fathers." The Missouri Synod and its conservative associates in the SYNODICAL CONFERENCE (see Chart) stand unalterably on acceptance of the confessions "because"-not "insofar as" -they are in agreement with the Bible. They are equally firm on 1) literal interpretation of the Bible and 2) refusal to join any group whose members do not interpret...
...Architect Edward Durell Stone, 56, and for the first time he was seeing, nearly completed, the building he had created. One of the profession's freest spirits and by general consensus the most versatile designer and draftsman of his generation, Ed Stone was a pioneer modernist. He early set his mark on such buildings as Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, became one of the deftest interpreters of the International Style initiated by France's Le Corbusier and Germany's Bauhaus school. In recent years he revolted against the monotony of cityscapes composed of acres...
...that we are trying to carry out what normal humans of good faith having some confidence in each other would do in accordance with the language of the Constitution . . . Now, I admit this: if a man were So deranged that he thought he was able, and the consensus is that he couldn't, there would have to be something else done, no question...
Response to the Administration's decision allowing seniors to live off campus next year has been Very light, according to a consensus of opinion gathered yesterday from the House Masters...
...economic front, the "consensus" of his economic advisers, he said, was that 1958 would produce "an upswing rather than a continuation of any downturn." But in case of a continued downturn he thought "a little needle" would be better than "a checkrein." Therefore, for fiscal 1959, some deficit spending "would be better than to start now the question of tax raising." But the Administration has no intention "at this moment" of proposing any kind of specific legislation to pep up the economy...