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...type says in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. And it's a measure of his pretension that he thinks a picture of the corner drugstore down the street, a store you might pass every day, couldn't have any "dignity." But in the novel, his contemporaries nod in assent, and Proust himself might accept this sentimental notion...
...filly's jockey Jacinto Vasquez. Ruffian's right front ankle had cracked. The cheering faded as the afflicted horse pounded on, then slowed to a stop with the fragile sesamoid bones above the hoof completely shattered. Within nine hours Ruffian was dead, put down with the assent of her owners, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Janney Jr. Ruffian's death came as an enormous blow to the racing fraternity. But for sportswriters and just plain enthusiasts, it was a beginning of controversy over the cause of the accident and the quality of medical treatment the stricken Ruffian received...
Nonetheless, there were a few small shifts in positions during the week that gave Kissinger reason to carry on the talks for as long as he could. Sadat told Kissinger that he was prepared to assent to a "declaration of non-warlike intentions" in which both sides would agree not to use force to "settle the Middle East crisis." The Israelis felt that the formulation was too vague for comfort...
...evidence is that in his final days, Mao, with the ready assent of the versatile Chou, feels the need to bring more stable patterns to China and abandon-or at least temper-the rash experiments and the tumultuous campaigns for ideological purity. In true pragmatic style, Chou appears to be blocking out a program that will incorporate those things that have worked well as Mao sought, first one way and then another, to build a modern industrial state without at the same time creating a privileged technocratic elite...
...democratic idea of the rule of the majority, though practiced for a time in ancient Athens, has gained wide acceptance only relatively late in the day. In medieval times, whether in the great council of the church or in secular parliament, the assent of everybody was esteemed as the ideal. "Unanimity was sought," wrote J. Roland Pennock in the American Political Science Review, "even if it could be obtained only by the process of wearing down and shouting down the dissenters-or by resort to threats or physical force...