Word: statesmanly
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...limiting the number of joint appearances, Davis said he has another concern: that McCain maintain his image as a statesman...
Fortunately that wasn't true-this elder statesman version of Green Day has added musical competence to back up the snot-nosed attitude of yesteryear. Though the set included some 25 songs or half-completed songs, the band never seemed to tire, and sounded tight all the way through the six-song encore. With an excellent sound mix, the vocal hooks were audible and the guitar punchy and loud. Even songs from the newest album, calm by comparison on recording, came out action-packed and catchy...
Thank you for portraying our boss, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, as the dignified global statesman that he is [WORLD, Sept. 4]. I and many of my colleagues had the honor to witness his unique qualities firsthand last April when he addressed the World Food Program headquarters staff in Rome. It is inspiring to know that such a compassionate and talented individual heads the U.N. family of nations. JUDITH ANNE THIMKE World Food Program Managua...
Things in Shanghai grow ever stranger. Sarah, now married to an elder statesman visiting the city, suddenly proposes that she and Banks run away together. "I suppose I was surprised when I heard her utter these words," he allows, but raises an objection: "The difficulty is my work here. I'll have to finish here first. After all, the whole world's on the brink of catastrophe. What would people think of me if I abandoned them all at this stage?" By this point in the novel, normal narrative logic no longer applies; after telling Sarah...
...Evan Thomas addresses the question with moral clarity, psychological subtlety and bracing dramatic pace. Thomas conjures up not only the well-known good Bobby and bad Bobby--the saint and the bully--but all the Bobbys, like cats in a bag: the punk with the resourceful instincts of a statesman (see the Cuban missile crisis or the civil rights struggle in the South), the hawk and the dove, the liberal and the conservative, the plunger and the temporizer, the youthful McCarthyite, the knight of the New Age, the scowlingly obsessive hater (Castro, Hoffa) who was also a friend of animals...