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...substantive issue of Pompidou's first referendum, held last Sunday, was not as controversial as De Gaulle's last. By now, most Frenchmen assume the expansion of the Market to be a fait accompli. The only real question was how many of the 30 million eligible voters could be lured away from "le weekend" and "la residence secondaire" to vote in what their President insisted was a pressing matter. The expectation was that about 60% of the voters would go to the polls, with about two-thirds of them in favor...
...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...