Word: politicoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During his brief career as an amateur politico Portlist has collected dozens of uncomplimentary labels. He has been called a demagogue, a Communist, and a scapegoat. His own view of himself is less sinister. "I'm a crank," he declares. "The far right doesn't have a monopoly...
...ever-free Liz, will fail to enrapture only the most hardened Lamont wonk, and should cause even the Peachiest of Cliffies to loosen the stays on her girdle. Tom Courtenay must be a Harvard Everyman--going through the motions on the outside, but a sexual tiger, fearless politico, and suffering hero in his omnipresent daydreams...
Indeed, with such a wealth of reference Harvardiana, some brash readers have gone so far as to suggest that Mark Epernay, described on the cover-flap as "evidently a distinguished observer of politico-economic trends," is really the pseudonym of a Harvard professor. A few have even had the gall to mention--or, rather, whisper--the name of John Kenneth Galbraith. But that is patently ridiculous. Harvard professors are far too intellectual and have too many hour exams to mark, government officials to consult, and ambassadorial duties to attend to, to have the inclination or the time to write facetous...
...with the problems of a chaotic country. A Buddhist but eager to demonstrate his religious neutrality, he ceremonially greeted Saigon's Roman Catholic Archbishop Nguyen Van Binh on his return from Rome, also dispatched a helicopter to bring home Le Thanh Tat, chief of the eccentric Cao Dai politico-religious sect, who had been exiled in Cambodia.* The air carried an unmistakable tang of political fever. Repeatedly Big Minh assured visitors of his hope to hold elections "if possible" in six to twelve months. But the U.S. is in no hurry for him to do so; the country...
...openly distressed by the entire proceeding, said he had no choice but to convict. In a nine-hour decision delivered last week, he gave Awolowo ten years in prison for treasonable felony, just a bit milder than the 15-year prison term meted out to Awolowo's crony, Politico Tony Enahoro, a few days earlier...