Word: statesmanship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national anthems. Pen is put to treaty, palm grasps palm in a handshake of newfound understanding and -- pop! -- a burst of flashbulbs records the moment for posterity. But as the cold war winds down, history is offering up startling new images that bear none of the hallmarks of traditional statesmanship. Last week history was made amid the flutter of colorful balloons, the sputtering of rattletrap Trabants and Wartburgs and -- pop! -- the burst of champagne corks. It was the Great Trek Westward, and as East Germans headed for new lives in West Germany, the world witnessed a unique spectacle: an East...
...despite being Communists." The insurgents suffered a setback in last week's election of a new parliament, or Supreme Soviet, but Gorbachev still intends that body, over time, to serve as a counterweight to the party. He is pulling off an amazing, perhaps unprecedented, feat in the history of statesmanship: he is simultaneously the leader of the entrenched power structure and the leader of the opposition...
...history's calendar, last week had been circled in advance. It was set aside, blocked out ahead of time for a grand show involving two men who wished to immortalize themselves through a feat of statesmanship...
Gorbachev has long since demonstrated a potent blend of statesmanship and showmanship. He is a natural at working the crowds and attracting attention, as his schedule this week demonstrates. In the capital of capitalism, the world's top Communist will tour Trump Tower, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and perhaps the New York Stock Exchange. As the Secret Service and New York City police department prepared for Gorbachev's arrival, they were terrified that he would leap from his limousine on Wall Street, on Broadway or along Fifth Avenue to press the flesh, just as he did outside a power...
Observers said the speech by Bush, the certain Republican nominee for president, would emphasize his foreign policy credentials and statesmanship...