Word: statecraft
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Salvation through Statecraft...
Last week, answering a press-conference question, Ike admitted that he was working on a reorganization program designed to conserve the President's energies for important statecraft. He killed off talk about the establishment of two additional "vice presidencies"; there is a "constitutional, traditional meaning" for the term Vice President, said he, and it could not be applied to any other job. Ike did not elaborate, but the White House is hard at work on a plan that would establish two "assistants to the President" in appointive posts subject to Senate confirmation, ranking at least with Cabinet members...
Citation: "A jovial soul of magnetic human qualities, wise of statecraft and learned in the law, in the fashion of one inured to the blasts that torment the summit of Everest, he mans his lofty eminence with serenity and aplomb begat of a stout heart and the instinct for unswerving rectitude...
...strictly limited. Using mostly her own company and appearing herself in the leading role, Choreographer Graham presented the last struggles of Mary Queen of Scots to Webern's expansive Passacaglia, Opus i, Six Pieces, Opus 6. The work detailed Mary's discard of the symbols of statecraft, her hopeless duel with Elizabeth, her course to death on the scaffold. Brilliantly costumed, the work had some stunning theatrical effects: the sudden revelation of Elizabeth in shimmering gold gown as her high-backed throne turns slowly to the audience, the ritualistic tennis game played with gold rackets and balls...
...Statecraft & Stagecraft. With a female eye for pageantry and a female solidarity with a woman both hated and admired by historians. British Biographer Jenkins has painted a string of brilliant miniatures of her heroine. She maintains that the Queen had a kind of magic ("a quality of incantation") about her by which she managed to unite state, nation and the reformed religion in one person. How else explain the almost mystical response by the London mob to her coronation progress through the streets? Elizabeth, crying "God 'a mercy" to her people from beneath a canopy held by knights...