Word: statesmanly
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...depends on getting the right people to head the constitutional monarchy. Queen Victoria in her period was the right head of state, and she also had Albert, the Prince Consort, who, if he had lived, would have made a big difference because he was a very, very high-class statesman...
ENGAGED. Stuart Symington, 76, first Secretary of the Air Force (1947-50) and telegenically handsome, four-term Democratic Senator from Missouri who, he said, graduated from politician to statesman when he retired in 1976; and Ann (Nancy) Hemingway Watson, 59, widow of Arthur K. Watson, an IBM executive and a son of its founding father. The wedding, in June, will be the second for each...
...find it ironic and pitiable that the Senate majority leader "wouldn't enjoy going away and doing nothing." For I concur with the Roman statesman Cicero, who said, "He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing...
...personality, Trudeau and Lévesque are almost exact opposites. Canada's Prime Minister is cerebral, disciplined, removed, impatient with his intellectual inferiors. His personal motto is "Reason over passion." Trudeau is a political theorist turned political activist who thinks of himself as a philosopher-statesman. His public speeches frequently sound like university lectures. First elected Prime Minister in 1968, partly because of his Kennedy-like charismatic appeal, he has seldom been far from the front pages, some of which he would prefer to have avoided?most notably those recounting the stormy breakup last spring of the marriage to his young...
...Texas, the Austin American-Statesman offered a variation on that theme. "Oh well," said an editorial, "one thing Carter doesn't have to worry about -he's too short to hit his head on helicopter doorframes...