Word: bismarckian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sense, of course, Kissinger's nomination was simply a confirmation of the true state of American diplomacy. It was Kissinger, the theorist of a Bismarckian balance of power, who had created the intellectual framework for Nixon's greatest achievements in foreign policy, the new detente with China, the progressive improvement of relations with the Soviet Union and, finally, the truce in Viet Nam. It was Kissinger, too, who personally brought those theories into reality in an endless series of secret flights and exhaustive negotiations in Peking, Moscow, Paris. Secretary of State Rogers traveled to official conferences and presided...
...TERMS OF whom she knew, Lou Andreas-Salome was Germany's Gertrude Stein. The roll call of her associates is virtually a Who's Who of post-Bismarckian literary and intellectual history, and the succession of men in her life sounds like one of H. Stuart Hughes's reading lists...