Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...About ten years ago, as the architect of much of the Great Society, you spoke about eradicating poverty and bringing the millennium to this country. Why didn't those masses of bills...
...emergency meeting of 14 nations convened in Paris last week by the IMF, Witteveen, a thin, elegant figure who lives in Washington with his wife, spoke serenely to TIME about his economic philosophy and his religious convictions. Although he calls himself a liberal (he is a member of Holland's People's Party for Freedom and Democracy), and acknowledges an intellectual debt to Keynes, he nonetheless is a believer in the "market mechanism and the price mechanism...
...message was for Moscow, and the tone was intended to ease tensions, but the substance was basically nonconciliatory. Though he spoke of "the invisible human reality that must bring us together," Carter made it clear that he had meant everything he previously said that had roused Soviet ire. Carter tried to drive home points with Southern politicians, as well as Soviet leaders, by citing the Bible and Leonid Brezhnev in almost the same breath. After all, Carter noted, the Soviet President had remarked three weeks ago that "realism in politics and the will for detente and progress will ultimately triumph...
...magnetism of the ranking visitor. He touched the people here profoundly. This was not merely the matter of his being a fellow Southerner, although that was naturally part of it-they were proud when he praised them for supporting their integrated public schools, proud too when he spoke of the mutual heritage with its faults and virtues. What struck them most deeply of all, at such close quarters, was the intelligence, friendliness, graciousness and trust he conveyed to them as Americans...
...first true cosmopolitans: he was both painter and diplomat, and on delicate negotiations (as with his efforts to make a treaty between Spain and England, for which Charles I duly knighted him), Rubens the court portraitist served as splendid cover for Rubens the agent. He spoke five languages fluently, knew almost everyone of significance in the worlds of politics, scholarship and art, and was the proper heir to Titian's role as "prince of painters and painter of princes." (By a slightly eerie coincidence, Rubens was conceived in the provincial Westphalian town of Siegen in 1576-the year Titian...