Word: assents
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...work in this way. I finish the script when I finish the picture. Oh, I have script to sell, but when I make the movie I go search for landscapes. When I see landscapes I like, changes script." He looks to his audience for some sort of assent. As he speaks, his hands appear to be juggling the words of his childlike English as it tumbles forth in broken rhythms...
...Nixon Administration has once again presented a challenge to all Americans who oppose the war and believe in total U.S. withdrawal. We, as students, must not give the policies of the Nixon Administration the assent inherent in silence. We must show our outrage at this latest atrocity through participation in demonstrations, support for militant actions such as those of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, the withholding of Federal taxes, and support for political candidates favoring total withdrawal. Nixon's escalation of the bombing is a ruthless political act and the response must be political, not passive silence while...
...briefing. Nixon nodded in Mills' direction. "We can all take credit for this program," Nixon said. "Wilbur, these are some of your ideas." Mills smiled wanly. The moment of glory was Nixon's, but Mills will have plenty to say about those parts of the program that require congressional assent...
...about how the problem will be resolved. But they will be given some clues?as will the rest of the world?about what the men in power may do. The Soviet delegates do not debate issues. They are elected to their posts only after careful screening and final Politburo assent. When a resolution is presented, they automatically approve it, for they know that the Politburo has already accepted it. Yet they perform a significant if largely ceremonial function. The rulers of a dictatorship need an apparatus that seems to confirm their legitimacy, a formal link to the party rank...
Nerve and high intelligence are needed to write at Koestler's level, and Author Lange does not seem to have either. The power of Darkness at Noon lay in the fact that the inquisitor Gletkin, proceeding logically and fairly from Rubashov's own assumptions, forced him to assent to the value of his own execution. Lange, on the other hand, flies into fantasy. There is a power failure at the brain laundry, and Vandenberg climbs the electric fence and escapes...