Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a barrage of rocks and cries of "To the wall!" Few places in Latin America know a wider chasm between rich and poor, between the white aristocracy and the Indian masses, who, 400 years after the conquest, still live in misery. Though Beltran is an alert and enlightened statesman, his efforts to bring social and economic reform to his country are hampered by centuries of hatred and suspicion...
Sweden's 81-year-old Archbishop Emeritus Erling Eidem, who buried Hammarskjold's statesman father eight years ago, conducted the service with quavering hand. Opera Singer Elisabeth Soderstrom sang I Know That My Redeemer Liveth, and the Lutheran choir Work, for the Night Is Coming. Near the casket was a wreath of daffodils and two red roses. Sent by Hammarskjold's family, it bore a one-word inscription...
...most pragmatic politician-statesman is Argentine President Arturo Frondizi, a man whose goals, once set, stay set. Characteristically, the goals Frondizi set for his journey to the U.S. and the U.N. last week were rigid-but realistic. He was determined to convince highly placed North Americans of his unwavering commitment to Western democracy, and he aimed to convince them that his kind of Argentina is worth helping. At the U.N. he resolved to cement his role as the independent-minded spokesman for Latin America now that Brazil's Jánio Quadros has come a cropper. Frondizi could count...
When My Girl Comes Home, by V. S. Pritchett. In these short stories, a first-rate writer and critic (Britain's New Statesman) spots the seeds of madness in the most prosaic minds...
...EverPresent Possibility." In contrast, Walter Lippmann, 72, elder statesman of the U.S. columnists, had a clear and unblinking view: "A full nuclear war would produce by far the biggest convulsion which has ever occurred since man appeared on this planet. In saying this, my object is not to add to the general creepiness. But we cannot understand the realities unless we remind ourselves that nuclear war is not just another war, but a wholly new order of violence...