Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dear Abby'?" Some connoisseurs think they can detect a difference. When the Modesto Bee (circ. 65,490) asked its readers last October to vote on which column to run, Landers won by a landslide, 837 to 97. But most readers-and editors -agree with Austin American-Statesman (circ. 128,093) Managing Editor Jeff Bruce, whose paper, like many others, carries both columns. Says he: "I suspect most readers cannot tell one from the other." Big Sister Landers, who appears in the Sun-Times while Abby runs in its Chicago rival, pooh-poohs comparisons...
...worrying about how Air Force uniform trousers were tailored around the crotch and Jimmy Carter's arranging the tennis schedule for the White House court. Our Presidents could take a lesson from Egypt's Anwar Sadat, who perhaps has had more big ideas than any other statesman of this era. He purposely clears his schedule for long hours of rest, walking and pure solitude. The Egyptian President takes the facts his experts bring to him, relates them to his experience and study before his rise to power, and makes his decisions accordingly...
Albert Carnesale, professor of Public Policy, termed the Haig appointment "the end of an era," adding that "for a long time the country had hoped for a time in which military force played a less important role in world affairs." Haig is "a military careerist, not a statesman," he said...
...vesque is at least partly right. Bringing the constitution home would be a fitting capstone to Trudeau's long and tempestuous political career, almost twelve years of which he has spent as Prime Minister. As much a philosopher as a statesman, Trudeau sometimes sees himself as the only man who can hold his linguistically divided nation together. Defending both his budgetary and constitutional proposals, he told a rally in Saskatchewan last week: "Let us put reason before passion. Let's talk a little bit more with our intelligence. Then our gut feeling will be more for Canada than...
...Philadelphia suburb of Jenkintown, has already cast an absentee ballot since he is planning a trip to Europe. A liberal Democrat all his life, Blank voted for Anderson. He has only disdain for Carter: "The fact that by comparison Jerry Ford has been elevated to the rank of elder statesman is sufficient reason to vote against Carter." Of Reagan, Blank says: "His economics are incomprehensible. I am a hostage to the future in the person of my grandson, and Reagan's urgings that we be No.l in arms means only an accelerated arms race. He's shallow, superficial...