Word: consents
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Long ago, in the sane dull Washington of 1958, Journalist Allen Drury wrote his first novel-the one for which he is remembered-Advise and Consent. That was a blowsy, likable, jump-all-over-you book, about a Senate battle against confirmation of a Secretary of State; about a band of stalwart lawmakers, including one Senator being blackmailed for homosexuality; about a society hostess, and so on. It made a great read. It won Drury the Pulitzer Prize, which he even perhaps deserved: he had had the energy to people a big novel with a lot of boldly drawn characters...
Compounding the President's troubles, Congress had passed a law forbidding such a removal without the consent of the Senate. Because the Senate had not consented, Stanton refused to give up his office. But the President would not back off, confident that the Supreme Court would find Congress' firing restriction unconstitutional. Before any high-court determination, however, the House voted eleven articles of impeachment. With the Senate sitting as a trial court and presided over by the Chief Justice, the charges were prosecuted by the "managers" from the House, one of whom elegantly defined an impeachable...
BEING a practical-minded nation, Americans and particularly American politicians have forgotten the theory behind republican institutions. They have forgotten that republican government is supposed to rest upon the consent of the governed, and, now that the people have been effectively cut off from the government and its doings, the government rests on grounds so shaky that the slightest shock could send the whole thing into...
...some illusions. The major powers [including the U.S.] apparently don't intend to commit their forces to the Middle East. The U.N. is an arena for waging conflicts, not an instrument for solving them. It cannot "guarantee" anybody's security or take a single step without Arab consent. Israel's guarantee must be its own strength as well as secure boundaries that permit her to absorb an attack without being destroyed...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who died four years ago at the age of 83, was by general consent one of the three grand masters of early modern architecture, along with Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. Mies' pure, honed elegance, as seen everywhere in his works, from his famous Barcelona chair (1929) to his glass-curtain walls, has transformed the appearance of every major city on earth. No modern architect has been more widely (or in most cases more clumsily) imitated...