Word: consents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delegation going to Moscow for this week's formal signing of the nuclear test ban treaty (see THE WORLD). The Senator hesitated. "Will I be committed to anything?" he asked. "Will I have to sign anything?" Only after he was assured that he could remain uncommitted did Aiken consent to go along...
...second reason is that defiance of the Supreme Court undermines the basis of our liberal democracy. That democracy rests on consent, and part of that consent is the willingness to fight out issues of this type in a constitutional framework. If the rulings of the Court are to be held in contempt, the whole concept of a government of checks and balances is threatened...
...father of Technicolor, a lanky, secretive M.I.T. graduate who named his process for his alma mater, hit pay dirt with Becky Sharp in 1935, and ever after mined millions from his Technicolor, Inc., selling only his "services" (never cameras, which were guarded like crown jewels) until a 1950 consent decree forced him to be more accommodating; of a heart attack; in Bel Air, Calif...
...What he is after instead is a blush. And a special kind of blush at that. No rosiness such as some blunt, simple-minded fellow might force to her cheeks. "No," writes Cazotte to his patroness, "her blood is to rise, in pride and amour-propre ... in full, triumphant consent to her own perdition." A creature of honor, she will be destroyed, though outwardly intact, by inner recognition that she has desired her own dishonor...
...Bobby Kennedy's assurance that a Negro can become President in 40 years to the unfortunate tone of warm congratulation with which so many liberals address their Negro equals . . . The only way that the white man can be released from the Negro's tyrannical power over him is to consent, in effect, to become black himself, to become a part of that suffering and dancing country that he now watches wistfully from the heights of his lonely power and, armed with spiritual traveler's checks, visits surreptitiously after dark . . . The price of the liberation of the white people...