Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some neutral Swedes were made a little nervous by the award. "Even if Caesar happens to sing," said the Socialist government's newspaper, the Stockholm Mor-gon-Tidningen, "he can never become an Orpheus . . . The academy move paves the way for the statesman, warrior, philosopher and poet, Mao Tse-tung in Peking, to receive the next year's prize." The Liberal Aftonbladet, however, thought the award might "well have been made much earlier." The Communist Ny Dag sneered: "This is a clear case of sidetracking Eisenhower . . . They say he, too, has written a book." But Sir Winston...
...broad, florid face of a peasant surmounted by a thatch of obstreperous, oiled-down red hair. But the voice that came out was the courtly, confident baritone of a man who, to the surprise of almost all concerned, has blossomed almost overnight into Italy's leading statesman. For two hours last week, Premier Giuseppe Pella ranged over Italy's relations with the rest of the world...
...resolute student can gain such a fine technical or scientific background. The New York public schools which produced such notorious gangsters as Frank Costello and Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer have also sent a stream of eager youngsters out to fame, fortune and high public service. Among them: Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, Panama Canal Engineer George W. Goethals. Opera Star Rise Stevens, Singer Robert Merrill and Comedian Eddie Cantor. About two-thirds of last year's graduates went on to college this autumn and collected $2,500,000 in scholarships in the process...
...good intention and did not claim that his own desire for such laudable goals as peace was any greater than Acheson's. But there is more to getting a peace than wanting it, more to working toward decisions than suavity and adroitness at the conference table. A statesman who wants peace has to find specific policies which will lead his adversary to make-and keep-agreements. Not until effective policies have been established can negotiating skill show any results. It is at the all-important level-where principle is translated into policy that Dulles has had more success than...
...right hand, counseling speed and firmness, was Iran's ablest and most respected statesman, Court Minister Hussein Ala. Onetime Premier, Foreign Minister, Ambassador to the U.S. and the U.N., shrewd, 69-year-old Ala was ousted from the court post last April by Mossadegh, resumed his old job after the Shah returned from his brief exile. One result: today, the old, meddling palace camarilla which made and unmade Premiers in backstairs intrigues is gone. Its leaders-Princess Ashraf and the Queen Mother-have not returned to Iran...