Word: tacitly
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...much territory "they"-the NLF, the North Vietnamese, or whoever-"control." An interesting principle, this, which suggests that the Paris negotiators ought to divvy up the Vietnamese nation according to where the military dice have fallen thus far. And the underpinning of that principle is the simple, tacit fact that American armed forces have been winning in Vietnam since...
Hickel, though, is still an Alaskan and well aware of his state's economic anguish. With his tacit blessing, Alaska Governor Keith Miller clumsily tried to move ahead on the $120 million access road. He first got his legislature to approve a bill that would allow the state to build the road and then be repaid by the pipeline consortium. Not wishing to risk stockholder suits, the consortium turned down the idea. In order to reintroduce his plan. Miller asked the legislature to return to Juneau early this month for a special session. But when the legislators discovered that...
...consensual. He takes the Lockean consent-of-the-governed (if not quite the social contract) as a real and serious matter. This seriousness focuses the essays on a procedural rather than substantive ethics. As a tool of analysis, consensual theory can say little about those whose consent is tacit. A silent majority is negative data. Walzer necessarily concentrates on those whose moral initiatives are obvious and visible, as with the radical or dissenting intellectual. Inevitably, and perhaps for the best, he describes a political world as confronted by people like himself...
...wangling an invitation from Phnom-Penh to attack the Communist bases in Cambodia. The omission meant that Washington was openly violating the Geneva accord of 1954 (which it did not sign but has repeatedly claimed to respect), guaranteeing Cambodian neutrality. Still, there is no doubt that the U.S. obtained tacit consent. Cambodia's Foreign Minister, Yem Sambour, said it all when he registered the government's feeble objection. "In principle," he said with a broad smile, "we must protest the action...
...barometer. In 1961 he hired not a single black actor for his musical, Subways Are for Sleeping, though the Manhattan locale is a spectrum of racial color. On the other hand, he has employed a skilled black stage manager, Charles Blackwell, for years. In 1957 Merrick briefly ruptured the tacit ban on black stagehands by insisting on hiring some for his musical Jamaica. But that was an isolated case, and there is scarcely a black stagehand around. The union has been totally familial, a closed corporation. As Producer Arthur Cantor puts it: "You have to be born into...