Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last Try. The gesture was of no avail. Last week President-elect Leoni, a dour, unimaginative party politician, rejected Caldera's final offer for coalition. With that, Caldera announced that COPEI would now go into opposition, would pursue an independent course of "autonomy of action." Leoni scrambled among the other parties, tried to scrape up a tenuous four-party coalition that would give A.D. a majority in Congress. But few Venezuelans were willing to bet that any new coalition would last much beyond inauguration...
Much of Arevalo's analysis could have been performed by any Latin politician, if less forcefully. His great contribution in Anti-Kommunism in Latin America is his unique discussion of the Catholic Church and its role. He makes an impassioned plea for liberal thought by the Church, and systematically tears down the conservative positions that have long been advanced on the part of Catholicism. One feels his deep sense of tragedy when he concludes his discussion of the Church: "Respectable public: the comedy is over. Too bad that we have ended up in Hell...
Oilless Flame. As politician, Macmillan made many enemies, for he was ruthless, Machiavellian and completely cold blooded in pursuit of his policies. But as a great parliamentarian, an unswerving patriot, and a man of courage, vision and humor, he will be long remembered. For the future, Macmillan intends to devote some of his time to his family's publishing house and hopes to commit at least "a few thoughts" to paper. He can also feel confident that his years in the political vineyards will be royally rewarded, either with an earldom or by being dubbed a Knight...
Graham at a press conference reminds one of a politician delivering his "set speech," and of one politician in particular, Billy Graham and Barry Goldwater have more in common than the initials they use. They both combine passionate beliefs with personal flair; neither is an original thinker and neither is an original stylist, yet each has risen far above others who profess similar beliefs in somewhat the same manner. As Gold water is a cut above John Tower and H.R. Gross, so Graham seems far removed from Oral Roberts and the other nameless faith-healing Protestant evengelists...
Graham adds to his balanced, careful sentences a politician's forced modesty. "I'm in the line of these people," he says, comparing himself to great evangelists of the past, like St. Augustine and St. Francis of Assisi. But he quickly adds, "I'm the least of them all. . . . I shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath with them. . .I'm not worthy. . . ." The words have the hollow sound of a statement which once was passionately sincere but which had been eroded by constant flattery until its speaker had come almost to disbelieve...