Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ringing challenge by President Kennedy," and the New York Times warned that "the President must ask himself how much he dares dilute his program in order to get what is left of it approved. The question is dangerous: he could succeed as a politician and fail as a statesman." Last week the Times was disappointed. "This was not a fighting speech," it said...
...Democratic minority's parliamentary ploy of preventing a quorum by refusing to vote. The "Reed Rules," many of which are still in use, ended House filibusters for all time. Reed was known as well for his cynical wit as for his autocratic rulings. His definition of a statesman: "A dead politician." His sardonic tribute to Progressive Republican Theodore Roosevelt: "Theodore, if there is one thing for which I admire you, it is your original discovery of the Ten Commandments...
Noted Specimens. Acknowledged elder statesman of the count is Charles...
Died. Faris el Khouri, 84, voluble elder statesman of Syria who entered politics as a Deputy in the Ottoman Parliament in 1914 and despite repeated deportations for revolutionary activity fought for Syrian independence, served Syria four times as Premier, between 1944 and 1955, and headed his country's delegation to the United Nations, where he was Security Council president, led the bitter Arab opposition to an independent, Zionist Israel; after a long illness; in Damascus...
Taylor insists that Hitler was no fanatic. "Hitler was a rational, though no doubt a wicked statesman," writes Taylor primly. "His object was the steady expansion of German power, not a theatrical display of glory." This is an odd assessment of a man who wallowed in the theatrical, whether haranguing the chanting mobs under the searchlights at Nürnberg or accepting the total destruction of Germany as a suitable Götterdämmerung to accompany his own demise. His nationalism, far from being the common variety, was the most virulent racism the world has ever known...