Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mishap in South Carolina fed fires already raging. By unhappy coincidence, Nikita Khrushchev chose this moment to write Bertrand Russell a 9,000-word letter attacking U.S. Secretary Dulles' stand on disarmament. This letter, published in the left-wing New Statesman, warned that "one absurd incident" involving a bomb-carrying plane could spread "horrible death," touch off a world...
...Elder Statesman Arthur Godfrey made it known last week that he has turned down two invitations to run for the U.S. Senate. He protected the identity of those who asked him to run and withheld whether he was to be a candidate from Virginia, where he lives, or for Senator-at-large. "As a Senator or Congressman," Godfrey explained to TV Guide, "I might be able to achieve something if I had enough time. But look-I'm almost 55 now. I don't know when the next elections are, but I'd be at least...
...historian, as well as statesman, Churchill refuses to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire; he leaves his story just before the beginning of the end, with the death of Queen Victoria and the Boer War. It is astonishing to recall that Historian Churchill himself was once a prisoner of that war, almost 60 years ago. It helps to explain the confidence with which Churchill cuffs the past about into its proper Churchillian posture. When schools are better, his books will be required texts...
...What's My Line?, The Last Word, and six memorable sessions of the Jack Paar Show. Last week, in his second Omnibus show, he won hosannas for directing and starring in a televersion of his own satiric tragedy, Moment of Truth, playing a Petain-like elder statesman with overtones of King Lear...
...fear that gangland killers would learn of his presence at one of their crimes. The show was just another dipperful of clabber out of Kraft Theater's antique churn. Berle played the shallowly written role with egregious self-control. Conscious of his dignity as a TV elder statesman, he liked the part because it was, said he proudly, "something unbrash, unflippant and unaggressive-I wanted to get away from the Berle trademarks...