Word: politicians
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...Politician...
DIED. Luigi Barzini, 75, Italian journalist, author and politician; of lung cancer; in Rome. The urbane, elegant Barzini was best known for The Italians (1964) and The Europeans (1983), which solidified his reputation as a self-styled interpreter of America for Italians and Italy for Americans...
...should have come as no surprise to Americans that Gary Hart overtook Walter Mondale in the early primaries [NATION, March 12]. Many people see Hart as a breath of fresh air in a country that is politically stagnant. Mondale comes across as a politician who helped give away the Panama Canal, allowed American hostages to remain captive in Iran, and used our Olympic athletes as a political tool...
...press is a peculiar, disembodied, melancholy creature driven by strange hungers, never happy with its triumphs, wanting always to be loved and incessantly suspecting that it is not. In this, of course, it closely resembles the politician. There the resemblance ends. The politician and his appointed assistants have an obligation to be responsible...
...ventriloquist had died, and Reagan had just returned from the funeral. His convivial spirit had been quietened by sorrow. His face was drawn; his thoughts were with his friend; there was a sad smudge of theatrical makeup on the cuff of his shirt, one of the stigmata of the politician in this age of television...