Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ambassador's tenure in Tokyo, the Japanese press had lost some of its exhalted respect for the sensei (honored teacher). In more and more circles of the Japanese government, there was unflattering talk of the "two Reischauers" -- the diplomat who defended his government's Asian policy inflaggingly and the scholar who harbored serious doubts about "absurd" tragedies like the war in Vietnam...
MEMOIRS: 1925-1950, by George F. Kennan. During a crucial quarter-century of American-Russian relations, Diplomat Kennan was in official disfavor first for being too harsh toward the Soviets, then for being too soft; by hindsight, he was right more often than wrong...
They also conceded that the settlement had enhanced Turkish prestige and plummeted Greek influence on the island to an alltime low. Said a ranking Greek diplomat in Nicosia: "Pax Hellenica has ended. It is being replaced by Pax Ottomana...
Died. Wladyslaw Tykocinski, 46, top-ranking Polish diplomat who defected to the West in 1965; of an apparent heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Finding "only a cynical exploitation of human opportunism and fear" in Poland, Tykocinski turned himself in to a U.S. Army sergeant in West Berlin, quitting his strategic post as head of the Polish Military Mission in West Berlin. Stung by his defection, a military tribunal in Warsaw last year tried him in absentia and sentenced him to death...
...Odyssey? Ulysses' travels in the world. Well, my poems are my own voyages over the world." The answer is not as simple as it seems, because it includes both voyages of the mind and those that came of exile and a lifelong career as a Greek diplomat. His family lost all it had during the disastrous Greek-Turkish war in 1922. As regimes changed, his antimonarchist father, a professor of law, was hired or fired. The young poet lived as a diplomat or political exile in a bewildering succession of places-Albania, Crete, South Africa, Egypt, Italy, Turkey, Lebanon...