Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what I think about the war. I think the U.S. had no business getting involved in Viet Nam in the first place, when the French pulled out. But we are here now in a position of commitment so great that we could not simply pull out. As for the consensus, I would say that most of the guys here think it's a hot, dirty, stinking war and cannot wait to get home. But they feel that they have a job to do and must do it as well as they can. Does that help...
None of this means that analgesics in normal doses are dangerous; they are probably safer than most other non-prescription drugs. But there may be a limit. The expert consensus so far: when doctors prescribe ten or twelve five-grain aspirins a day for persistent painful disorders such as arthritis, they should watch their patients closely for signs of anemia or kidney damage. And headache victims who become aspirin or APC addicts should invest in a visit to the doctor. It may be cheaper in the long...
...lonely, isolated, conspicuous and bewildered as a Honda on the Kansas turnpike -and doesn't like it. He may seem at times to long for individuality, to talk about it and even try to display it. Nevertheless, he is disquieted to find it in himself. Sato's consensus politics is but a manifestation of this national trait...
With his skill in the art of ambivalence and his constant concern with consensus, Sato is an irritating leader to the more Westernized of Japan's interi (intellectuals). Today, at 65, he is a ponderous speaker but a man of steadying weight in a nation ready to take off in many directions. He reads "middlebrow" samurai novels (the Japanese equivalent of westerns), and watches with benevolence the careers of his two sons, Ryutaro, 38, an oil-company executive, and Shinji, 34, who works for the Nippon Kokan steel company. To the looks of a Kabuki actor, Sato adds...
Cold Alliance. In at least one respect, Sato should get help from the nation's intellectuals, who play an important political role. No longer as ritualistically left-wing as they once were, they influence foreign policy and stimulate public debate, generate national consensus or fragment it through articles in such publications as Chuo Koron (Central Forum), Japan's leading intellectual monthly. At the cutting edge of the intellectuals today is a group known as "the New Realists," men educated for the most part in Britain and the U.S., who bring a hard, analytical view of the world...