Word: rembrandtian
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...Ambassadors are the eyes and ears of states," says the classic definition. This calls to mind some Rembrandtian statesman returning from a foreign court to whisper a few words of intelligence into the ear of a king. As expanded by the State Department, the job of reporting has thousands of bevested young officers obsessively sending millions of words to Washington. With his tongue only barely tucked in his cheek, Thomas A. Donovan, former U.S. consul in Iran, writes: "Background studies on such live topics as Recurrent Themes in the Bulgarian Press Treatment of the Black...
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