Word: statesmanly
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...grows glacially remote. Even when his emotionally distraught daughter attempts suicide, he sends an emissary to her bedside. Eventually, the young woman seeks fulfillment outside her native country, first in Europe, then in the U.S., where she and her daughter live today. In the final chapters she celebrates the statesman and martyr she knows better in death than in life. Yet it is as a man that her father remains most appealing, spending his Nobel Peace Prize money to benefit his birthplace ("The villagers even had color TV before I did in Cairo") and promoting culture. "You made...
...budget. In particular, Ronald Reagan comes out of the crisis enjoying a new lift in public support and praise from some of his sharpest critics, who confessed that in this case at least he was not the headstrong hawk they had so long feared. Reagan's image as a statesman was further burnished last week by Moscow's agreement to a summit conference between him and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, to be held Nov. 19 and 20 in Geneva (see WORLD). But the President also faces the equally daunting though less heroic task of putting his clout to work internationally...
...Pritchett is best known for his short stories, but he been prominent as a writer of biographies, literary criticism, and other non-fiction work. In 1978, he ended his 50-year tenure as literary critic for the New Statesman, the English journal...
...Paritchett is best known for his short stories, though he has been prominent as a writer of biographies, literary criticism and other nonfiction work. In 1978, he ended his 50-year tenure as literary critic for the New Statesman, the English journal...
...book is nevertheless redeemed by its superb selection of diarists from all walks of life. In his extensive reading of the obscure as well as the class.., Mallon has stumbled upon some marvelous passages and some intriguing characters. His book is "populated by writers, dancers, madmen, statesman, lovers, assassins, philosophers, housewives, soldiers, and children"--all in all a rich host o: "selves." It is a pity that they are all sapped and leveled by the author's uninteresting prose. We can only hope that there will soon be an Oxford Book of Diaries where Thomas Mallon will be able...