Word: consensus
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...catch. A community of scholars is predicated on a simple principle: that the necessary prerequisite for beauty's existence is a common and comparatively rare understanding of what that beauty means, of how it can be recognized, of what is at stake. It does not require a group consensus or vote by committee; but it does require the acknowledgment of at least one observer...
...even halfway around the world here at Harvard, finding consensus within their communities is proving to be a more difficult process than many had hoped--despite good faith efforts on both sides...
...expect the good times to return just yet. With the economic-minded fretting about the winter and spring - Slowdown? Inflation? Both? - and the policy-minded starting to think seriously about the election, every earnings report is a tea leaf and every tumble a bargain hunt. The tentative consensus from the CNBC crowd is that with trading volume running higher on the sell-off than on the recovery, this thing may indeed be a bottom, but it's a bottom to be tested and retested in the next days and weeks, to find out if it's real...
...carbon copy" Harvard's architecture from the late '70s to the late '90s could be described as architecturally unchallenging, Levitan says. The attitude of the administration at the time, he says, was to promote consensus--an aim reflected in the architecture of the time...
...while it has moved beyond the consensus-building architecture of these past decades, Harvard is very conscious of the reaction of its neighbors. The University's decisions in commissioning the new project at 90 Mt. Auburn St. show this greater consciousness of community opinion...