Word: fait
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memo declaring: "I think we should give every encouragement to the idea that this Administration is seeking rapprochement with the Chinese." But it was typical of the Nixon style to camouflage his intentions, work quietly through Kissinger's National Security Council and order thorough study before unfurling his fait accompli. A Government-wide review of China policy, initiated by one of Kissinger's galvanizing National Security staff memorandums (there have been 143 so far) in 1969, took six months to complete. A second, begun in 1970, took five months. The secret documents steadily proliferated. Before he took off for Peking...
...totally succeeded in effecting it. George Jackson had come to the realization that the first thing he had to do to and for himself was to undergo a self-inflicted purgation. In this letter to his mother, he writes as if the process were already a fait accompli: "...neglect and loneliness have no effect on me anymore. I feel no pain of mind or body, and the harder it gets the better I like it." But then he adds in what is probably a more realistic reflection of his state of development. "I must rid myself of all sentiment...
...version of Marcel Proust's seven-volume Remembrance of Things Past. The role that caught her fancy: Maria Sophia, the sixtyish Queen of Naples, who will have only one scene. Nothing has been signed as yet, but Visconti sounded as if Garbo's reappearance was already a fait accompli. Said he: "I am very pleased at the idea that this woman, with her severe and authoritarian presence, should figure in the decadent and rarefied climate of the world described by Proust...
...would have been proud. "Look here," they would have said, "look what the South has done." I believe that many white Southerners who do not like school desegregation would probably take me to a desegregated school and be proud of it. There's this thing of the fait accompli: once accepted, it seems to me, it is often accepted with pride. That is one of the reasons why the outsider cannot appreciate what has really happened. I spent one day with my wife doing something that I could not have gotten from the literature: seeing the poverty program...
...emasculation. He stressed that the independence of the Legal Services attorneys would not be impaired. Anyway, he added, the matter is still "an open question." Nevertheless, Senator Walter Mondale of Minnesota produced a confidential memo from one of Rumsfeld's lieutenants treating decentralization as a virtual fait accompli and outlining procedures to carry it out. Rumsfeld denied that the memo contradicted his position...