Word: pragmatist
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...evening Jefferson read. "I can not live without books," he confessed. He preferred Greek and Latin classics in the original. He cherished his Homer, his Thucydides, his Tacitus, though he was too much of a pragmatist to abide Plato's "foggy mind...
...tarmac at Warsaw's Okecie Airport last week. The official Polish press agency reported only that "high party officials" had been there to greet the distinguished visitor. The low-key arrival of one of the Kremlin's most powerful leaders, a man widely regarded as a pragmatist rather than a hard-lining ideologue, was seen as a reassuring sign by many Poles. Said one Warsaw journalist: "It means that the Soviets are prepared to accept what we are doing as long as it does not disturb the political and military balance of Eastern Europe...
...together all branches of the fractious party, Mauroy and his fellow socialists hit upon Mitterrand, who appeared to Mauroy to be a "man of destiny." But that year Mitterrand was soundly defeated by Charles de Gaulle for the presidency, and a close working relationship between the intellectual and the pragmatist did not form until the Socialists' 1971 reunification congress...
...familiar ground. And his job was more secure. He was back to seeing Reagan about three times a week and often talking to him by telephone several times a day. The NATO ministers were apparently reassured by Haig's own confidence. They see him as an accessible pragmatist among Reagan's cold warriors...
...That old pragmatist Franklin Roosevelt, whom Reagan idolized from the prairie long ago, was not at all sure just where he was headed; events swept him along, and he improvised to meet them. Some of Roosevelt's aides are still around town. They recall drafting new legislation in the Mayflower Hotel even as F.D.R. gave his Inaugural Address, then rushing the documents to members of Congress still in their toppers and frock coats...