Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other fellows will include James Boyd, editorial page editor of the Idaho Statesmen, Jonathon Z. Larsen, former editor of the now-defunct New Times magazine, and Paul J. Lieberman, an investigative reporter from the Atlanta Constitution...
...full-length Lulu, third act and all. To Rolf Liebermann, the Paris Opéra's general director, it was the culmination of a 30-year quest. To Conductor Pierre Boulez, it was belated "justice to a work that has been mutilated." To the black-tie audience of statesmen, artistic leaders, 200 music critics and assorted opera buffs, it was a triumph and, to some, a perplexity...
...full view, are the national leaders fitfully attempting to deal with the crisis of 1961. Obscured from public sight are the embattled East Berliners making a last attempt to escape before the Wall is completed. The contrast is sometimes too theatrical and may do less than justice to statesmen who must always improvise, but Cate sharply points up the courage demonstrated belowstairs that was so urgently needed...
...turned-off electorate not to turn away from the parties, from voting, from giving politicians a chance to correct the mistakes of other politicians who were elected in the first place to undo the modifications of the reforms of the earlier politicians, the parties will turn to revered senior statesmen, men with images, with romantic support, with possibility--and nominate Nelson Rockefeller and Hubert Humphrey...
...people and imprisoned another 50,000, the Shah's fate would be sealed. The Shah's best hope, if he wishes to retain any symbolic position of esteem, is to make a dramatic declaration turning over his powers to an interim ruling group of elder statesmen. Otherwise, he faces the slow disintegration of his army and, eventually, his entire country." As of last week, this was one bit of U.S. advice that the Shah did not seem anxious to take...