Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan last week, a distinguished British elder statesman rose to address the Foreign Policy Association. As wartime ambassador to Washington, Lord Halifax had been entrusted by Winston Churchill with a crucial job in building wartime cooperation between the U.S. and Britain. Halifax, now 70, spoke with grave pride of "the close companionship, in peace as in war, of your people and mine...
...Greene's story telling (and one or two have called it his finest book), but most of them boggled over those last 50 pages. "Difficult to swallow," said London's Sunday Times. "Too openly schematic," said the critic of The Listener. Said the critic of the New Statesman and Nation: "This, it might seem, is the last book by Graham Greene which a nonspecialist [in religion] will be able to review...
Victor Sawdon Pritchett lives in a cottage in the English countryside and, week in and out, writes (for the New Statesman and Nation) the best literary criticism in Britain today. But Critic Pritchett has an itch, and a talent, to do more. When he has time, which is not too often, he writes fiction. At its best, as in his book of stories, It May Never Happen (1947), this fiction shows marvelous quiet skill at catching the character of well-meaning failures...
...Daddy's 3,000 Years Old" After reading that human sperm might be deep-frozen and used for artificial insemination years after the father's death (TIME, Aug. 27), an indignant Englishwoman wrote to the New Statesman and Nation...
...statesman's chore done, it became obvious that Tom Dewey was also on urgent political business. He rushed up to Capitol Hill, got a quick lunch and a round of political handshakes, then headed for the office of Pennsylvania's Senator James Duff. In the 1948 Republican Convention, Jim Duff had declared bitterly that he was "for anybody but Dewey." But now the two had one thing in common: they both liked...