Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...general the Ambassador abandons the role of the philosopher not because he is explaining the policy of others but because the perspective of the diplomat and the philosopher are so widely different. As a private citizen and a public candidate, Stevenson time and again stressed the importance of cooperation with the Russians; repeatedly he declared useless a policy based on anti-Soviet attacks. Yet more than half of the U.N. speeches in this volume are little more than anti-Soviet propaganda. In these speeches, of course, Stevenson does not abandon his over-all philosophy. But in responding to an anti...
Galbraith apparently managed to fill his few dull moments in New Delhi by writing several satirical pieces for Esquire magazine under the pseudonym of Mark Epernay. Although many reliable sources indicate that the scholar-diplomat is indeed the man behind Epernay, Galbraith himself has never admitted any connection. "I have a rule about that," he explained. "I never comment on another author--no matter how good...
Mexico: Luis Padilla Nervo, 65, longtime diplomat and U.N. delegate, former Foreign Minister, President of the U.N. General Assembly...
...poems, said the committee, had "unique thought and style and beauty of language." And so last week, Giorgos Seferiades (pen name: George Seferis), 63, became the first Greek to win the $51,000 Nobel Prize for literature. A diplomat (until last year Ambassador to Britain) as well as a poet for more than 30 years, his eyes filled with tears as he called the award an honor for Greece "for which so many generations have struggled, striving to maintain what is still alive in its long tradition." Indeed, it was true, as in Seferiades' Memory II, of two friends...
Silence & Courage. Hochhuth's answer is that calculated prudence is appropriate for a diplomat, but not for a man with the awesome responsibility of being Christ's earthly representative. In Der Stellvertreter, Hochhuth contrasts papal silence with the action of Denmark's King Christian, who helped forestall Nazi persecution by vowing to wear the Star of David if his country's Jews had to, and with Munster's Bishop Clemens August von Galen, whose fiery sermons ended the Nazi euthanasia campaign in his city...