Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another old distinction is fading, too - the line between a "pastoral" Pope, like John XXIII, and the statesman-diplomat, like Pius XII. Though bred to the Curia, Paul VI so cherished his nine years as Archbishop of Milan that he determined that future Cardinals, even career Curia men, should have at least one good stretch of pastoral work. Most of the leading contenders are men with both pastoral and Curial experience...
Conceivably, Dostoyevsky might have been intrigued by the circumstances of the wedding itself, which, as Greek newspapers reported with some acidity, was "short, simple and cheap." It cost $2.15. The couple pulled up to a Moscow "wedding palace" in a battered, lemon-yellow Chevy Nova lent by a Greek diplomat. As a piano and string quartet played Mendelssohn's Wedding March, they entered a dark-paneled chamber. The bride and groom promised Klara Remeshkova, the equivalent of a justice of the peace, that they would preserve their love for all their lives, be faithful and loyal and stand together...
...church had experienced in centuries. At the time, Cardinal Montini seemed just the man to steer the church through the turbulence that confronted it. Idealistic and sensitive, a thoughtful scholar and a connoisseur of theology, he had a reputation for being open to new ideas. He was a subtle diplomat with an acute knowledge of the inner workings of the church's machinery...
...Ever the diplomat, Pius acted as his own Secretary of State after 1944, but two pro-secretaries-Montini and the late Domenico Cardinal Tardini-directed the day-by-day work...
...want to plant themselves in the public mind, while signaling that they are in tune with the technotronic times. And hucksters have long relied on the power of a clever name to sway a customer's decision. The popularity of Cheer and All among detergents, and Mustang and Diplomat among autos, is no more due to the properties of the merchandise than the box-office power of a John Wayne movie is usually owed to artistic excellence. The hottest new perfume, now U.S.-bound from Paris, is called Opium. No telling how the doomed Edsel might have done...