Word: sage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THIS FALL KING JIMMY chose Alfred Kahn, a curious cross between the court jester and the court sage, to serve as chairman of his Council on Wage and Price Stability and Adviser to the President. Thus far Kahn has engaged in witty wordplay with his inimitable foe--inflation--and found it doesn't succumb to his funnies as readily as his other, more human audiences. Since the Vietnam war inflation has gained an increasingly prominent position on the roster of the nation's problems--the Consumer Price Index indicates that prices have doubled in the past eleven years. And unless...
Safire is too light-footed to write like that. On his fifth anniversary as a columnist last April, he wrote that he avoids "evenhanded analyses, sage soul searchings or detached observations. I am in the business of writing informed polemics ... with a satisfying zap, so as to affect people in power and their policy in formation. In 1973 1 was hopelessly defensive; now I am happily aggressive...
...sinister" widow Chiang Ch'ing; highborn ladies tiptoeing painfully on bound feet and unisex masses marching in bulky Mao jackets; delicately misty watercolors and propaganda posters as crude as comic strips; hundred-year-old eggs and gunpowder; opium dens and Buddhist pagodas; the imperturbable mandarin sage and the fanatical archcriminal Dr. Fu Manchu...
CHRISTMAS CHEER to Ed Reischauer, the sage of Japan...
...Wenceslaus, the Crimson sage...