Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lack of drama, Sir Abubakar is an astute and impressive statesman. His rolling, resonant oratory and superb command of English have won him the nickname "The Golden Voice...
...election night victory party last week in Providence's Sheraton-Biltmore Hotel, the crowd's attention turned suddenly from merrymaking to the grand entrance of a large, elder-statesman kind of gentleman. He was Herbert Claiborne Pell, former Ambassador to Portugal and Hungary, who had just arrived from London with his wife to see their son, Claiborne. After upsetting two veterans in the Rhode Island Democratic primary, Claiborne Pell was celebrating a 2-to-1 landslide win over his Republican opponent for the U.S. Senate...
...every one of his plays, MacLeish is not wasting his time. He is always the statesman-teacher, dramatizing with serious intent the things he feels strongly about, which are the things he feels we should feel strongly about. He reminds us that the highest role of playwriting is to show and explain Man to himself...
...greatest orator since Curley," whispered an avid woman attorney. "I used to introduce Curley, right here, same time, same occasion. He was the greatest statesman of them all. Sometimes he did things that didn't look good, but he sure did the best things for Boston. And he was a great orator...
...from (though not unrelated to) the one he has just so successfully completed. In the last several months, with the skill of the born politician, he has impressed his attractive personality on enough voters to win election as President of the United States. Now, with the skill of the statesman, he must lead the nation through what he himself has described as a difficult and dangerous time...