Word: brooked
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...while, the Johnson Administration insisted that it wanted its original bill to go through the Senate completely intact, proposal by proposal, comma by comma, and would brook no change. But Old Ev knew better -no changes, he said, and there would not be enough Republican votes to pass the salt. The Administration, being eminently realistic, eventually gave in, and in a series of meetings between Dirksen, the Democratic Senate leadership, Attorney General Kennedy and Justice Department lawyers accepted almost all of Dirksen's ideas for changing the bill...
...rest proceeds through ovals, rhombi, etc., in a code of images down to the Z shape itself. With these pictorial tools, he broadcasts winnowing waves like those on a TV set after the last late show ends. They are, he says of his works now at London's Brook Street Gallery, Paris' Gallery Denis Rene and Manhattan's Pace Gallery, "a nourishment for all, just like consciousness, rhythm, song or vitamins...
When Peter Brook's film version of Lord of the Flics fell smack on its allegorical face last year, it seemed that a bunch of kids might come close but finally couldn't bring off a serious Work of Art. Recently, however, an old director, Yves Robert, a slew of French child actors (les cent gosses), and a wonderfully appropriate script, The War of the Buttons (adapted from Louis Pergaud's novel) simply meshed...
...vision of the spire as a living prayer of praise. His master mason and architect threatens to quit, the cathedral has no real foundation so that the spire, even if built, is likely to fall, his fellows in the cathedral chapter all oppose the plan, but Jocelin will brook no interference. Consumed by his dream he goes into debt, disrupts the services of the cathedral, fills the choir with the blaspheming of dirty workmen...
...Belgian government can never accept this Spain," snapped Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, though he did not exclude bilateral trade agreements with Common Market nations. Italy's Ambassador Antonio Venturini made it plain that his government's apertura a sinistra (opening to the left) could never brook an apertura a Franco...