Word: consenting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...year's pay raise for federal employees-have ever been enacted into law after being forced out of a balky Rules Committee by a discharge petition. Still another route is the "Calendar Wednesday" procedure. On Wednesdays, a committee chairman can call a bill to the floor without the consent of the Rules Committee, but under conditions that make it possible for opponents to stall the bill to death. Last year Sam Rayburn used the Calendar Wednesday method to rescue a depressed-areas bill from Judge Smith's clutches, but that was the first time the device had been...
...domestic dramas include two adaptations from novels, All the Way Home, which transmits much of the poetry and power of James Agee's A Death in the Family, and Advise and Consent, a brisk and tense political melodrama taken from the Allen Drury bestseller. Also of note: Tennessee Williams' Period of Adjustment, a lively comedy-lecture on marital success that is forced more often than forceful...
...Advise and Consent, Drury...
...referendum convinced even the soldiers who believed in Algérie FranÇaise. "We cannot oppose France and De Gaulle now," said an officer last week. "We thought we were here to guarantee French sovereignty . . . Now we know the French people have a different idea. We must consent by maintaining discipline. But a lot of young officers are not holding their heads high today." The officer corps deeply remembers the war years when Vichyite and Gaullist troops clashed in Syria and Dakar. Above all else, French generals are determined that "never again must the army be divided against itself...
Midway in a middling Broadway season, the best new plays include All the Way Home, a life-affirming adaptation of James Agee's Knoxville chronicle, A Death in the Family; Advise and Consent, a superficial but suspenseful political melodrama based on the Allen Drury bestseller; A Taste of Honey, an episodic but unblinkingly truthful first play about a desperately lonely girl, brilliantly performed by Joan Plowright; and Period of Adjustment, a comedy in which Tennessee Williams turns marital counselor in an unprecedentedly optimistic work that displays more deftness than depth. Among last season's worthiest survivors: Lillian Hellman...