Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voting booths that demonstrated the U.S. secret ballot to visitors at the Brussels World's Fair, some 200,000 popularity votes were cast by a poly-national assortment of voters who named their American favorites. Statesman: Abraham Lincoln. Actress: Kim Novak (who drew more than twice as many votes as second-running Marilyn Monroe). University: Harvard. Musician: Louis Armstrong. Most Important Immigrant to the U.S.: Albert Einstsin, distantly followed by Thomas Mann...
Best of the middle generation is tousle-haired, big-beaked Kenneth Armitage, 42, already hailed by the New Statesman as "our most considerable sculptor since Moore." Armitage has long since left Yorkshire and set up his studio in London, but he admits that, once Yorkshire's industrial grimness gets under the skin, it cannot be washed off. Says he: "There's a hardness, a discreetness; everything is somehow bitten off and sharp, like Greece, but of course without the warmth of Greece...
Kenedy is playing the role of the statesman. He never mentions his opponent's name, nor does he discuss the Sherman Adams case. The Senator sticks to a discussion of what he has done in the past and what he plans to do in the future regarding state issues. He talks about civil rights, labor benefits, and protection of Massachusetts industry...
...seeking a portrait of a great statesman, a national or international prime mover. What we are seeking is a close, fast-moving picture of a man essentially doing what he is supposed to do, under the Constitution, as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives: representing the people of his district and, as a byproduct of that, trying to get himself re-elected." So wrote TIME Associate Editor Champ Clark early this month to TIME Detroit Bureau Chief Marshall Berges, as he outlined the reporting requirements for this week's cover story on Michigan Congressman Charles Chamberlain. Writer...
...music still has a lilting, lace-curtain charm, but it is well for Statesman Dawes that he never lived to see himself become a jukebox hit. The man who helped negotiate the Kellogg Pact might have trouble digging Crooner Tommy Edwards' adenoidal message...