Word: politico
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Once, as a "reverse Rhodes Scholar at Yale," chubby Geoffrey Crowther toured Georgia with three other collegians in a ramshackle flivver. He enjoyed every muddy mile of it. Since then, as editor of the Economist, he has covered the U.S.- and the world-like a politico-economic bird dog working a new, field. And he has made the weekly Economist Britain's most influential periodical...
...Gridiron Dinner, Henry Wallace was impersonated as a slightly hurt politico who rushed on stage and sang...
...bookstacks, he had read Bakunin, who dreamed of absolute freedom; Marx, who dreamed of absolute politico-economic science; and Rousseau, who dreamed of justice. More important, he had read the Prussian General Karl von Clausewitz, who dreamed of power. The more Lenin schemed and struggled (in the bookstacks) for the revolution, and was thwarted, the more he thought of power. He made marginal notes on Clausewitz. "How true!" Lenin wrote. "Clever and witty." Admiringly, he summed up a Clausewitzian point: "War as a part of a whole, and that whole-politics...
...easy battle for the amateur politico from the Law School, for his margin of plurality over the next man on the list was a mere 280 votes. Four councilor-at-large spots were placed on the line, and eight men were contesting for them when balloting began on Election Day; Hansberry ended up in fourth position, but that was all he needed...
Died. René Kraus, 46, able Austrian émigré journalist, biographer (Winston Churchill, The Men Around, Churchill) and onetime politico (in Schuschnigg's pre-Anschluss "inner Cabinet"); after long illness; in Amityville...