Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neither overly friendly nor hostile-just resigned") permitted Sheely to examine the ship's papers (all in order) and the ship's log. From log notations, Sheely found that Novorossisk had indeed been plowing the seas near the cables at the time of the interruptions. Experts' consensus: the trawler's heavily weighted nets had fouled in the cables; when the fishermen raised the nets, they raised the cables too, and the cables were broken or cut away to save the trawling gear.*After a 70-min. tour of the ship, Sheely asked the captain to move...
...prizewinning book, L'Em-pire Céleste, which they generally dismissed as "good, meaty, lending-library stuff." The story of a poor cafe pianist who realizes his mediocrity after friends read his diary, L'Empire seemed little more than mediocre itself. Critical consensus: had the elderly ladies of the Fémina jury been on their toes, they might have given Franchise the prize for her Illusionist (1951), the story of a young girl's love affair with her father's mistress...
This freedom may be lost in many ways, of which the purges of the early fifties are only one. Such freedom may equally well be endangered by the American impulse towards consensus--the polite desire of every committee chairman to say: "we all agree that . . ." which among professors leads to voluntary conformity...
...physicists convening in New York heard an elaborate progress report on controlled fusion power. The consensus-practical H-power is still decades, perhaps generations away...
...remember him as pale, sickly, with "an extraordinary radiance." Last week the Camus radiance was back onstage, in one of the year's most exciting theatrical events: the opening in Paris of Camus' long-awaited dramatic version of Dostoevsky's The Possessed. Le Monde expressed the consensus of Paris critics: "A magnificent and stupendous spectacle...