Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From traveling secretary of baseball's Cincinnati Reds to reporter to Washington bureau chief to Journalist Statesman-in-Residence. And what does Reston search for? The meaning of the nation's 200th anniversary. Perhaps he thinks that America will find "dignity, simplicity, and unity" through some gala birthday party. It is a fruitless hope...
...with simplicity, dignity, or unity. He saw almost from the beginning that the U.S. government did not tell the whole truth about Vietnam, yet he did not lead American journalists in attacking the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. He felt he had a role to play--as journalism's elder statesman and voice of moderation. He saw "a great nation" fighting someone else's war, but he gave the great nation the benefit of the doubt: he wanted more information before making a judgment...
Kissinger a new latitude of near autonomy. As Sir Alec Douglas-Home said in London last week, Kissinger is no longer an agent of the President, but a "creative statesman" in his own right, "who has the support of the President of the United States...
...there is a new caution, an extra moment of thought before he delivers his carefully phrased answers. There is less time for sleep (five hours a night) and more demands for him to fulfill the protocol role of office. The playboy of the West Wing has become the serious statesman...
That prophecy, written by the Roman philosopher and statesman nearly 2,000 years ago, may soon be fulfilled. Growing brighter every morning in the predawn sky, one of the largest comets ever seen by man, its elongating tail stretching across millions of miles of space, is streaking toward a Christmas rendezvous with the sun. Later this month and through most of January, the giant comet should provide an extraordinary celestial spectacle, and may well help answer the questions that Seneca raised so long...