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...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...
...Africa and Latin America this policy translates into an effort not to win allies, or even friends, but to help build stable, peaceable and economically sturdy nations, hopefully with governments "responsive to the consent of the governed." In Latin America, that is the goal of the Administration's still ill-defined Alliance for Progress. Some other arenas of policy...
...Being tea drinkers themselves, the Russian's propose to send shiploads of the coffee to Castro's Cuba. And on this point the two countries fell into their first conflict. Under the terms of the agreement, no goods may be re-exported to a third country without consent of the original exporter. So far, Brazil is withholding its consent...