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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...
...city; it peered and pried everywhere, and its somewhat watery gaze was often unflattering. Good-looking women turned into witches and dapper men became unshaven bums. Under TV's merciless, close-up stare, the demagogues and players-to-the-gallery did not always succeed in looking like statesmen. Besides exposing the politicians' worst facial expressions, the camera caught occasional telltale traces of boredom, insincerity and petulance...
...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...