Word: consents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than all that, a President has to establish moral authority based on public trust. Indeed, the whole art of governing a democracy lies in mustering popular consent on a vast scale. A President must have convictions, a vision of where the nation should travel; he must summon the national mood and push it in the right direction. If he fails to give his people a sense of participation in crucial decisions, his politics may be doomed from the start. "A President," says Political Scientist lames MacGregor Burns, "must be both preacher and politician...
...role was more problematic: "Should I consult my superiors? I asked and obtained their consent." That still was not enough. In accepting artificial prolongation of his life, was he denying the will of God? "That question lies between one's conscience and God. Here the conscience, in confrontation with the love of God, takes its risks. In solitude...
...censorship. Although the deviate references in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) were cooled down considerably for the screen, two years later his Suddenly Last Summer was filmed with explicit references to pederasty. In the early '60s, the central characters in both Advise and Consent and The Best Man had their political careers ruined by past homosexual experiences. But even last year, some American film makers were still shy about dealing with the subject too openly: Richard Brooks eliminated most of the overt homosexual overtones from the characters of Dick and Perry in In Cold...
...campus disorder. "It represents an assault on rationality in politics, with its dismissal of free discussion and its conviction that violence will mystically generate policy and program. If men or mechanisms were infallible, there would be no need for persuasion; but because they are not, the discipline of consent is indispensable to civilized society...
...still to tackle a host of other issues, most importantly A.T. & T.'s relations with Western Electric, the nation's eleventh biggest manufacturing company. Though Bell avoided divestiture of Western Electric on antitrust grounds through a 1956 consent decree with the Justice Department, other questions are being raised about the subsidiary, which manufactures almost all Bell System equipment. Critics charge that Bell deliberately pays inflated Western prices in order to increase the Bell System rate base by raising the value of its plant. A.T. & T. denies this, pointing to Western's slim (4.1% last year) margin...