Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main thematic line is straightforward: as McKay comes ever-closer to winning his prize, he must rely ever-more on TV and other mass media to win his audience, in the process becoming less of a statesman, but a potent show-biz vote-getter. However, whether director Michael Ritchie and screenwriter Jeremy Larner feel this process necessary, and McKay's actions morally justified, is unclear. In the context of easy ironies that the film develops, in which all men are power-hungry or venal on a solely personal level, it is foolish to invoke moral considerations at all: though...
...whole trouble with this country is that the people are so used to the President's acting like he was made of Bell Telephone wire, some scrap metal and a couple of TV tubes that they think it has to be this way. When a statesman like George McGovern comes along and shows some one-on-one interest and some honesty, the people don't know a good guy when they...
...chooses; last week's was the first on television in 13 months. A President, as Nixon noted, does not really need the press, but he can, in effect, switch the media on and off as he chooses. The candidate sitting in the White House can run a statesman's campaign above the battle-which is precisely what Richard Nixon intends...
Brandt hopes to impress his status-conscious fellow Germans with his role as a world statesman by playing host to the great and famous at the Munich summer Olympics. In addition, Brandt would like to star at an October summit that would chart the Ten's course according to his vision of a strong united Europe that would work in close harmony with the U.S. This would help him allay the suspicions of many West German voters that his Ostpolitik has made the country too susceptible to pressures from the East bloc...
...Averell Harriman, LL.D., retired statesman...