Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...light--and suddenly out of the clear darkness the sound of bells. As an endless dream it went on; the spirit of the past brooding over a new generation, the chosen youth from the muddled, unchastened world, still fed romantically on the mistakes and half-forgotten dreams of dead statesmen and poets. Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights, destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear...
HONKY-TONK STATESMEN...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, said Isaiah Berlin, was one of the few statesmen in any century "who seemed to have no fear at all of the future...
...elder statesmen have gladly welcomed the diaper dandy into their group...
...bash with the Annans at the Waldorf-Astoria last year. "There was a dance band, and most people wandered out at the end," he says. "But he and Nane were out there on the floor all alone, dancing." From now on, that might be a rare sight. World-renowned statesmen don't usually get so much space to themselves...