Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some thought it possible that after a month's rest at the kibbutz, Hlasko might change his mind about returning to Poland. Actress Sonja Ziemann indignantly insisted he would never go back. But the consensus of Polish exiles in West Germany was that if brilliant, helpless, homeless Marek Hlasko does not go back to Poland this time, he will sooner or later...
...predict the retailers who sell and the manufacturers who make the goods. At Chicago's annual winter home-furnishing and appliance show last week, 45,000 buyers, salesmen and manufacturers from 11,483 firms started writing orders for the new year and swapping predictions about the future. Consensus: with the economy very definitely on the upbeat, U.S. retail sales in 1959 should post a banner year. Said one Washington discounter, who ordered $1,000,000 worth of goods and reports a 35% jump in sales for the first eight days of 1959: "Last year the buyers at the show...
...consensus opinion was probably best expressed by William C. Mitchell, teaching fellow in Government, who called Rep. Martin "highly experienced and beloved" but felt that he no longer provided the "imaginative and skillful leadership the Republicans need...
...idea of presuming to teach History and Lit as a synthesis--and not as a combination--necessitates a meeting-ground. Someplace, literature must be taught as history and vice versa. There is some consensus as to when this is valid--as, for example, that the art of a Shakespeare can be studied as craftsmanship whereas it is more profitable to approach Herman Wouk as a statement of group adjustment; but the dividing line never really becomes clear...
Comments ran from one extreme to the other. "Intelligence plus," wrote one girl. "Extremely conceited," claimed another. The consensus, however, was that the Harvard man is "well-read, diversified--the ideal date." One said that he is "less socially adept" than his Ivy League counterpart, but she added, "I think they're nicer...