Word: statesmanly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...April, Elder Statesman Benjamin Franklin advised a friend: "Nothing seems wanting but that 'general consent.' The novelty of the thing [independence] deters some, the doubts of success, others, the vain hope of reconciliation, many. But our enemies take continually every proper measure to remove these obstacles, and their endeavors are attended with success, since every day furnishes us with new causes of increasing enmity, and new reasons for wishing an eternal separation...
Paul Warnke, 56, was also a Viet Nam dove, was an Assistant Secretary of Defense in the L.B.J. era, and is now a law partner of Democratic Elder Statesman Clark Clifford, a potent adviser to all Democratic Presidents−and Presidents-elect−since Harry Truman. Warnke and Vance (but not Ball) are members of Carter's 28-member Foreign and Defense Policy Task Force...
...most observers agreed, coincidence that black unrest exploded just as Vorster was about to display himself on the world scene as a statesman of segregation. South African black leaders pointed out that they had been warning the Pretoria government for months that unrest in Soweto had the potential of leading to another Sharpeville...
...time to number the pages," published two different versions of his biography of his illegitimate son. The earlier edition, Barba-Martin said, deals mostly with the child's personality. The second edition, cast against a chaotic background of Sarmiento's own public life, serves as a vehicle for the statesman's ideas about education that were influenced by the American Horace Mann. Barba-Martin said his study of the two texts is quite "technical," yet when he speaks of Sarmiento he describes not the style of an author but "basically a man of essential ideas and will...
...buildings..." But clearly he was as much as anything else, carried away by his own rhetoric. In the same tome he called Mussolini an "OPPORTUNIST who is RIGHT," an "AWARE INTELLIGENCE," who was introducing "a new LANGUAGE in the debates in the chamber." He was according to Pound, a statesman of "deep 'concern' or will for the welfare of Italy," right down to "the last ploughman and the last girl in the oliveyards...." It seems that Pound wasn't aware of the irony, that the new language was, had been, totalitarianism, and the "sincere concern" was with the imprisonment...