Word: statesmens
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...Peanuts, Woody, Yank, Wingy, Red, Pee Wee and Willie the Lion.* Sammy Davis Jr. was supposed to come, but he pleaded "fatigue" at the last minute and didn't show. Just as well: he would have seemed out of place at this reunion of jazz's elder statesmen, come to celebrate one of their...
...militant white Southern Rhodesians have many sympathizers in England. And in an election year, the government of Sir Alec Douglas-Home is deeply reluctant to make any move that might encourage the self-governing "colony" to seize independence this year as it has threatened to do. Nonetheless, the African statesmen who were to wind up the speeches this week left no doubt that, in their eyes, Britain's resolution of Southern Rhodesia's impasse will be the crucial test of the Commonwealth's need and ability to survive...
Only after they agree do Yale and the rest of the world hear about it-maybe. And, as Acheson put it, "we never give reasons for our decisions, merely the blunt fact of them. How vulnerable are those who explain-courts, statesmen, editors. We can say of our views, as Mr. Churchill did of his when challenged with inconsistency, 'My views are a harmonious process which keeps them in relation to the current movement of events...
...took months to compile are now served up in days, or sometimes minutes, by computers. Economists still stand in awe of the modern maestro, Britain's late John Maynard Keynes, whose doctrines of central planning and high public spending made him the darling of the New Deal. Some statesmen have declared that the modern world needs a new Keynes. Though no single economist today commands so much power, the fact is that economists collectively have far more influence than Keynes & Co. could ever have dreamed...
Restif's own sympathies were nonetheless with the aristocracy, and though he read rage in the eyes of the masses ("Statesmen, beware! A fateful revolution is approaching! The spirit of defiance is spreading!"), he thought it could be checked by the wisdom of Louis XVI-and by cutting laborers' wages to remove the temptation to idleness. But his vignettes of violent street scenes and underworld characters develop into a seething panorama of the revolutionary mob, culminating inevitably in massacres in the streets and prisons, and finally in the Reign of Terror. As for Restif himself, he was several...