Word: statesmanship
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...chronicles a pretty traditional struggle between a set hero and a set villain, and much of the play's interest lies in the sheer simplicity of this. Despite its election-year coloring, The Best Man is really a hardy perennial in the way it sets ethics against opportunism, statesmanship against careerism, and light against darkness. In the course of the evening, any number of real-life names and topical references crop up. Dinner parties will thrive on arguing who's who, or who's half-who, among the play's characters. But Playwright Vidal knows that...
...calls himself still "an unrepentant supporter of Anthony Eden," though he doubts that John Foster Dulles played quite so villainous a role as Eden suggested. ("In the course of my contacts with him I found him a man of great parts and integrity.") But with a condescension toward U.S. statesmanship worthy of the British Foreign Office of 50 years ago, Drew Middleton, London bureau chief for the New York Times, suggested in a review in the Times of London that Eden's difficulties with Dulles were partly caused by Dulles' "resentment" of "Eden's easy mastery...
...forgetting that its real business is making money for its stockholders. While not sweeping away legitimate social advances, he gives the back of his hand to the idea that a corporation has any other prime duties, calls it "bewildering balderdash." For example, despite all the current calls for corporate statesmanship in price setting, he insists that prices should not be set on the basis of public or political policy, but on the needs of the corporation and what the market will bear -the higher the better. To do otherwise, he says, often does more harm than good: "The new corporate...
...combination of pandering to local desires and motivational research, it is because that is what they want. The President is supposed to represent the will of the people; to ensure a President who is a statesman, we must have an electorate which is interested in and can recognize statesmanship. The fault lies with the people, not with the candidates; the people get what they desire and deserve. In the meantime we can only hope that the men elected by "polite name-calling and Madison Avenue sloganeering" will also display statesmanship. Senator Kennedy has displayed a great ability at keeping...
...most closely identified with the one big success of the De Gaulle era-Finance Minister Antoine Pinay. Hopefully, peace may one day crown De Gaulle's efforts in Algeria, history may yet regard De Gaulle's generosity to the restless states of French West Africa as high statesmanship, but the one here-and-now triumph of the regime has been economic. And that is the province of short, commonsensical Antoine Pinay, 68, onetime leader of the powerful right-wing Independents in France's National Assembly and one of the Fourth Republic's many Premiers...