Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pressed by a newsman for a quick verbal self-portrait on the eve of his 89th birthday, Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch put on a mischievous, mysterious expression, nutshelled: "I do everything I used to do-but not quite as much...
...Elder Statesman Herbert Hoover, clear-eyed, poker-backed and 85 this week, returned to New York City from San Francisco to celebrate his birthday and catch up on his awesome workload (writing four books, answering scores of letters, being chairman of the Boys Clubs of America). That afternoon he went to Yankee Stadium to toss in the first ball in a nostalgic two-inning game between Yankee oldtimers and their erstwhile opponents from the National League foes...
...epic public give-and-take, at long diplomatic dinners and in late evening dacha talks, the Vice President of the U.S. spent more time with the Boss of the Soviet Union last week than any other American statesman in cold-war history. Around the world the rustlings and whisperings of regular diplomacy all but came to a halt while the chancelleries cocked their ears toward Moscow. In Moscow, oddly enough, there were no negotiations at all in the orthodox diplomatic sense, but there were loud, serious, deadly earnest debates about the resources and strengths of the West and Communism...
...aftermath of Spain's ruinous Civil War, the international war that followed, and the long years of political isolation. But the rest lay in Franco's inept administering, in Spain's archaic economic system, and perhaps in those national qualities described by a 19th century Spanish statesman: "I do not know where we are going, but I do know this-that wherever it is, we shall lose...
...tight little island, the congestion of people, the spreading of the Welfare State (with its regulations as well as its benefits) and the inherent petty tyranny of multiplying bureaucrats add up to a frustrating experience for a determinedly individualistic nation. Even so doctrinaire a Socialist as the New Statesman's Editor Kingsley Martin grumbled last week: "Because there are too many people, regimentation becomes unavoidable, and so Socialism's basic idea of substituting cooperation for jungle fighting is lost; it becomes merely the demand for equal regimentation...