Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they can cut budget requests. Last year his star pupil was Louisiana's Otto Passman, who applied a $872 million meat ax to the foreign aid bill (the Senate restored some of the cut). He held Passman up to the full committee as a shining example of the positive statesman. Says Cannon: "Of course they all laughed...
Died. G.D.H. (for George Douglas Howard) Cole, 69. grand old sachem of British socialism, Oxford don. Labor intellectual, president of the Fabian Society, chairman of the New Statesman, energetic author (A History of Socialist Thought, The Intelligent Man's Guide through World Chaos) who also wrote whodunits with his wife (Murder in the Munition Works)] in London. After onetime Prime Minister Clement Attlee was elevated to the peerage, G.D.H. Cole sneeringly wondered how a Laborite could "wish to be so degraded." Wrote New Statesman Editor Kingsley Martin last week: "Douglas Cole was a secular saint...
Waterfall from the East. Nasser himself is again playing both sides, as the game of "positive neutralism" requires. Last week no fewer than four Premiers called on him. Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani, the first top Western statesman to visit Cairo in two years, was there to argue a special Italian affinity for Arabs. Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah passed through; Lebanon's new Premier Rashid Karami dropped in to mend fences; and East Germany's Otto Grotewohl made a formal call on Nasser. Afterwards Grotewohl announced that the two countries, while not generally recognizing one another...
NAKED TO MINE ENEMIES, by Charles W. Ferguson. Probably the best biography yet written about Cardinal Wolsey, the butcher's son who became England's most powerful statesman. A great churchman and a genius of state administration, he fell victim to his own appetite for power, Henry VIII's displeasure and the Reformation itself. Author Ferguson sees him plain, with charity and good sense...
There was still some British reserve. The overall effect of Pollock's overall-painted patterns, said the Spectator soberly, was "neurasthenic dazzle." Yet even the New Statesman's gloomy John Berger had at last swung to Pollock's side, comparing him to Actor James Dean as an unhappy genius in an age out of joint. Berger's best guess on Pollock's approach to art: "In desperation he made his theme the impossibility of finding a theme. Having the ability to speak, he acted dumb...