Word: politicus
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...breaking out all over, is the best we can do; since we have arrived, we have nowhere else to go. We may end up "secure and self- absorbed," suffering from "the boredom of peace and prosperity," devoid of the "striving spirit" that gives humanity its sense of direction. Homo politicus is on the brink of becoming "the last man" -- the ultimate couch potato, "less than a full human being, an object of contempt...
Among all the veteran newsmen, big byliners and trained seals who covered the royal wedding, there was one notable cub. For Rebecca West, 55, famed as a novelist, critic and deep student of homo politicus (TIME, Dec. 8), it was her first assignment in spot news reporting. Editor Herbert Gunn of London's Evening Standard had given her his paper's only pass to Westminster Abbey...
Political hormones seem to be flowing freely this spring, and the results are almost as startling in the corpus politicus as in the corpus biologicus. One notes that Bulgaria is attempting the noble experiment of fascism. Under the tender ministrations of Tsankoff, whose government in 1923 executed Stambolisky, the Agrarian dictator, the king's conscience has been stirred. Abandoning the neutrality which he has maintained for many years, Boris has consented to dissolve parliament and replace the present cabinet with an "authoritarian" government. Successful declaration of martial law has been followed by the usual arrests of Socialist and Communist leaders...
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