Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon-Rockefeller ticket win, Rockefeller, of course, would not be the G.O.P. nominee in 1964. He would have lost the governorship of New York?which has not seemed to attract his talents lately anyway?but he would be the No. 2 Republican and possibly the No. 2 U.S. statesman on the national scene, and, as the politicians' phrase has it be "one heartbeat away" from the presidency. But the secret creed of ardent Rockefeller partisans on convention eve seemed to be that Nixon without Rockefeller will lose in November, that Rockefeller will suffer no party penalties, will capture the G.O.P...
...Dryden quotation from Absalom and Achitophel goes on: Stiff in Opinions, always in the wrong; Was Everything by starts, and Nothing long; But, in the course oj one revolving Moon, Was Chymist, Fidler, Statesman, and Buffoon...
...really an elaborate piece of purl and plain knitting, learned in part from that fancy needlework artist, Gertrude Stein. Far from being economical, it is in fact more prolix than, say, Thomas Mann's high mandarin, a fact proved some years ago by parodists in the New Statesman and Nation, who vainly attempted to translate a passage from Death in Venice into 150 words of Hemingway. It could not be done...
Protestants and Catholics alike will vote for Nixon, not because he is a devout Protestant, but because he is a great statesman and has already ''stood up to Moscow...
...more prosperous nation than he found it. Amid religious fanaticism, he remained tolerant and humane, and his chief fault was that he forgave anybody anything. He gained his political ends by letting himself be persuaded to do what he wished. "He had a sense of reality shared by no statesman of his time," says Pearson, "and knew in an instant what to do in any given situation (usually nothing) and how far he could...