Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Duke of Kent, Michael (whose godfather was Franklin D. Roosevelt) and Alexandra. Last of all in direct succession is George VI's only sister, the Princess Royal, and her family: George, seventh Earl of Harewood (rhymes with Gar Wood), sometime opera critic for the left-wing New Statesman and married to a Viennese pianist, their year-old son, and his younger brother, the Hon. Gerald Lascelles (rhymes with tassels), who once shocked the court by falling in love with a bonny barmaid, reduced the shock by not marrying...
...Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (1830-1903), was first named by Disraeli, headed the Foreign Office four times (15 years). He shrewdly played Russia, Turkey and the Balkan countries off against one another, kept peace in Europe. After Bismarck's retirement (1890), Salisbury was the most influential statesman in Europe. He made the French drop their claim to Egypt, and (as Prime Minister) brought the Boer War to an end. Salisbury was an intellectual, a wit, a student of theology and science, and a tolerant Conservative: "There is much," he said, "which it is highly undesirable to conserve...
When the book was published in England as The False Start, the critics dusted off some of their most generous phrases. The New Statesman and Nation called it a "limpid and exquisite love story"; The Recorder suggested that young Rossi might grow up to become "another Flaubert." Young Jean's little novel has now been published in the U.S. under the title Awakening, and, while it seems to have been a bit overrated, it is at least a remarkable book for a teen-age author...
...statesman's final counsel drew the most applause: "If I may say this, members of Congress, be careful above all things . . . not to let go of the atomic weapon until you are sure and more than sure that other means of preserving peace are in your hands...
...latter-day role of statesman, he is handicapped only by misinformation, lack of knowledge, capricious judgment and a cultivated aversion for the reading of books. 'Tell me what's in it,' he demands impatiently, 'don't make me read it.' " Said the Post: he prefers to let others read, see, listen-and even write-for him. "Winchell's 'gossip' ... is primarily the edited product of diligent, harassed press-agents who give him first choice on all evil that they see, hear or overhear-and some of the good, if it involves...