Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extremely well-cast play, Dennis King as Disraeli is debonair and mellifluent, a prince of players who conveys the facility of the successful novelist as well as the astuteness of the statesman. James Cossins' Gladstone is a subtle creation, the portrait of an un compromising man doing an honest, thankless job for a sovereign who can not abide him. But the play belongs to Miss Tutin. In the final act, without benefit of makeup sorcery, she and Victoria edge into old age. The fatigue of existence enters her voice, slows her step, dims her eyes like a patina...
...from his joust with John Kennedy, and he is cannily applying them to his primary battles against Michigan's George Romney. The former Vice President's campaign to date in New Hampshire and Wisconsin has been relaxed and understated, designed to encourage the image of Nixon as statesman. Ironically, Nixon believes that in the popular memory he has somehow acquired a Kennedyesque patina simply because they opposed each other in 1960. He is right about some of the patina, of course: he has a new TV makeup...
...doubtful whether anyone else might have been more successful than Pearson in uniting Canada. What was required above all was a statesman with the perception and tact to avoid further aggravation of Canada's problems, and Pearson, for all the dreary confusion of his administration, was such a statesman. He brought the skills of a great diplomat to a situation where such skills were badly needed; his accomplishments were unexciting, but very real nonetheless. At no time in his ten-year political career did Lester Pearson enjoy the support of a large majority of Canadians, but if another...
Died. Dr. Theophilus Ebenhaezer Dönges, 69, longtime South African statesman; after a series of strokes; in Cape Town. As Minister of Interior from 1948 to 1958, Donges pushed through South Africa's Parliament the harsh dogmas of apartheid-absolute racial partition, mandatory identification papers for all blacks, no mixed marriages, and no voting rights for persons of mixed blood-then, as Finance Minister from 1958 to 1966, bent himself to the more creditable task of successfully building a vigorous, stable economy for his gold-rich country. His real ambition was to be Prime Minister, but he finally...
...disclosed in the final communiqué, which spoke only of "the comradely atmosphere of the talks." The communiqué was also discreet enough not to mention the number of deer that each man had bagged in the hunt. Ceauseşcu, whatever his gifts as a statesman, is known to be a much poorer shot than his more experienced revisionist colleague...