Word: assenting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this obvious invitation, the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles made the next conciliatory move. "The essence," he said, "if ... we are to seek justice, is that the operation of this international utility shall be insulated from the politics of any nation." By his manner, Fawzi intimated his assent; it was obviously time to head off Security Council action on an Anglo-French proposal to condemn Egypt for its canal seizure and explore what Fawzi meant by "cooperation." Fawzi agreed to meet privately with Britain's Selwyn Lloyd and France's Christian Pineau in U.N. Secretary-General...
...never been considered advantageous for a President to create a recess appointment to the Court, that is, to appoint a Justice to fill a place on the Court before the Senate can give its assent in January. Such an act enables a Justice who may not be confirmed by the Senate to participate in vital decisions. The difficulty is compounded in an election year, for should Stevenson win, he is immediately subject to the obvious pressure of allowing Brennan to remain on the bench. Although Brennan is a Democrat, he was, according to legal sources, probably not Stevenson's first...
...with this caveat, the bishop invites Catholic psychiatrists to pay special attention to the problems of mystical phenomena (ecstasy, levitation, visions, stigmatization), vocations to the priesthood and religious life, and such common lay problems as sexual aberrations and "the ever practical matter of the validity of the assent given to the marriage contract...
...broad chessboard of international diplomacy, the U.S. moved decisively last week in a gambit that took the breath of professionals for its daring and won the assent of kibitzers for its instinctive rightness. With an open show of sternness, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles advised Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser that the U.S. is no longer interested in building the $1.3 billion Aswan High...
...Hope. And what of the intellectual in a land where privilege has passed to the crowd? The intellectual's true vocation, says Philosopher Sidney Hook, "is critical independence. The intellectual betrays his vocation when he becomes a poet laureate of the status quo. The criterion is neither assent nor conformity . . . My experience has been that most so-called intellectuals are just as conformist to tradition in their immediate circle as the nonintellectuals. Many intellectuals would rather 'die' than agree with the majority, even on the rare occasions when the majority is right." Certainly, says Barzun, the intellectual...