Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...majority of the quorum (half the student body) must vote "I approve. . ." after each statement to make it effective. Three petitions submitted to the Council last week automatically, by constitutional law, forced the student vote. Three additions and two deletions have been proposed...
There was a noisy wait of half an hour or so while bells rang to bring in enough members to form a quorum. Then the House put its sentiments unmistakably on the record, approved the resolution with a roar of "ayes,1- a scattering of almost inaudible "nays...
...QUORUM (309 pp.)Phyllis BentleyMacmillan...
...Quorum, her new story of postwar Yorkshire, is patterned on the weather-beaten but still serviceable formula of Grand Hotel. Author Bentley herds together eight more or less prominent citizens at a municipal committee meeting, and then, with dogged literalness, rehearses their past lives. Most of the characters conveniently pair off to personify the clash between the traditional virtues and the modern corner-cutting that is the main theme of the book...
...time the meeting drags to its finish, Author Bentley has somehow tied all her plot strings together and worked out a pro-virtue ending. Old England, the book hints, will continue to bounce along. Unfortunately, Quorum itself has little bounce. Except for the old-school labor leader, Author Bentley's characters are inert symbols of her social scheme, with neither individuality nor idiosyncrasy. Transparently plotted and written in muttony English, Quorum is the sort of novel that may give more kick to a rummaging social historian of the future than to today's American...