Word: consents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There's a Russian proverb, 'Silence is consent.' " He strode directly...
...Preserve and Protect, the fourth .novel in the series that began with Advise and Consent, Drury exploits the current climate of violence that presages what he calls "the Savage Seventies." His U.S. is still involved in fighting bad guys at home and Communism abroad. There is a back-burner struggle in Panama, where a plot is stewing to steal the canal. At the same time, America is escalating a hot war to protect its interests in an independent African territory called Gorotoland...
...state of suspended political animation, letting a surrounded Parliament continue to meet, permitting "detained" leaders to go on bargaining. Having gone all the way militarily, the Russians then hesitated politically. Having forcibly grasped their victim, the Russians seemed to be trying to bring off a rape with consent...
only by force of arms and not by common consent...
...routine." By 1914, however, the spotlight had shifted from post-impressionism to the angry, angular new vision of fauves and cubists. Vuillard stopped exhibiting and retreated into nearly three decades of private work. Only in 1938, two years before his death, did he break his self-imposed withdrawal and consent to a large Paris exhibition...