Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rostrum in the Kremlin's Great Hall waddled a stumpy figure in the dark green of a Soviet lieutenant general and sporting a chestful of medals. Sure enough, it was Nikita Khrushchev, epigrammatist, agriculturist, commissar, statesman-and now, it seemed, officially a war hero. It was the 20th anniversary of Hitler's invasion of Russia. According to the new history of World War II just off the press, none other than Nikita pressed Stalin in vain to change his tactics before the Nazis attacked in 1941. And who saved Stalingrad? "Great meritorious service in that connection was performed...
Jean Monnet, French economist and statesman, former president of the European Coal and Steel Community LL.D...
Advance Billing. No momentous decisions were expected, and if any were made, they were not immediately an nounced. But the job of measuring was thoroughly done. Kennedy found De Gaulle to be in accordance with the advance billing: a messianic, convinced statesman who, in six frank and open talks, came not an inch closer to accepting the U.S. view that France should cut short its do-it-yourself nuclear-arms development and live up to its NATO commitments. De Gaulle found Kennedy to be clever and knowledgeable, but still unsure in the manipulation of national power. But the personal relationship...
...brilliant formal dinner at the Elysee Palace. By this time, the crusty old soldier had obviously warmed to his young guests. Referring to Kennedy as "mon ami," the French President in his toast paid tribute to Kennedy's "intelligence and courage," noted "the philosophy of the true statesman who selects his course and holds to it without letting himself be stopped, not deviating because of incidents, and without waiting for any formula or combination to alleviate the responsibility that is his duty and his honor." Looking much like the parents of the bride, the De Gaulles stood beside the Kennedys...
...great exception to the rule was the master statesman Gudea, of whom 30-odd statues have been found-"the most impressive body of sculpture," says Parrot, "erected at the behest of a single man in a single space." But even Gudea has his hands clasped, for to the Sumerians the human figure was always the worshiper. Art was a bridge between the ephemeral and the eternal; a statue was, in fact, a liberation from the world of men to the world beyond...