Word: politicians
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When he was called upon to lead Britain in 1940, Churchill felt that his "past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial." In fact, he was already 65 and had led a full life as a politician, historian, biographer, journalist, painter, and soldier...
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was the son of Lord Randolph Churchill, a prominent and controversial Tory politician, and his American-born bride, Jennie Jerome of New York, Churchill was an erratic scholar as a boy, but he was finally graduated from Harrow and from Sandhurst, England's military academy...
Elemental, prodigious, indomitable, the spirit of Winston Churchill prevailed even as sickness shrouded his senses and the world waited to write his eulogies. Statesman and politician, historian and painter, orater and adventurer, his versatility, energy and excellence made him a revered and legendary figure ten years before his death. But imposing as his accomplishments are--his thirty volumes, his Nobel Prize, his magnificient speeches, his lucid grasp of European politics, his war-time greatness--it is ultimately his spirit, the proud, fierce joy with which he lived, that is most awesome...
Radcliffe students continually drew a contrast between former President Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. "We're sort of resigned to it now," said another Cliffie, "that we have a president who is just a good politician...
...Harvard, Dr. King chose not to analyze issues. Instead he spoke eloquently, with the rhetoric of the preacher and politician, and interspersed platitudes with references to William James, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Thoreau, Gordon Allport and a score more. His speech here was not very good. In another context--e.g., the dramatic setting of the Washington March--he can be magnificent...