Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government is a contrivance of human wisdom," Anderson said, quoting English philosopher and statesman Edmund Burke. "We must wonder what he (Burke) would say now that human wisdom is in such short supply," he added...
...Farmer patiently argued with the woman and just as patiently reassured a young, blind Jewish man about relations between blacks and Jews. These days, Farmer, tall, stout and barrel-chested with an eyepatch and a sympathy for Moshe Dayan, often finds himself cast in the role of moderate elder statesman...
Beneath a huge sepia photograph of the general, the speakers are extolling his qualities as citizen-soldier-statesman...
...Pritchett had returned to London to write fiction. To support himself he became a critic for the New Statesman. "I rather liked exploration books," he recalls. "They were expensive and could be sold." By World War II he was married, a father and a critic of growing reputation. Yet he still devoted half his working day to fiction. So it has gone ever since, and the rhythm shows no signs of slackening. The question of retirement seems inappropriate. One would rather know what Pritchett is working on now. "Two stories," he replies cheerfully, "at the same time...
...speech was yet another masterly performance by one of the world's premier political orators, even though it contained little that Castro had not said before. In Washington's view, the speech was primarily intended to enhance Castro's prestige as a senior statesman of the Third World. When he first addressed the U.N., in 1960, the 33-year-old Castro was a fledgling revolutionary, overshadowed by such neutralist giants as Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, then 68, and India's Jawaharlal Nehru, 70. Castro has now survived for 20 years as Cuba...