Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even Party intellectuals are beginning to grow uneasy, however. The virulence of The Yershov Brothers has been noted with disapproval in many quarters. The New Statesman's Moscow correspondent reports that "opinion is being widely expressed that the author has been too sweeping in his attacks on the Moscow literary intelligensia." Most significantly, the Writers Union, which read Pasternak out of its ranks a short time ago, criticized Kochetov sharply for unfavorable distortions of the intellectual's role...
...nervously reflected that "the entire Polish nation represents little more than a slight miscalculation in Chinese population statistics for one year." In the U.S. some thoughtful men argue that within a generation the U.S. will be helping bolster Soviet defenses against Communist China. Writing in London's New Statesman, British Socialist M.P. Richard Grossman reports that he came back from a trip through Red China convinced that "Chinese Communism is far the biggest and far the most formidable mass movement in human history''-a movement which "within the next decade" may transfer the center of the world...
Spry enough to savor a Texas-style barbecue, although no longer up to striking the daily "blow for liberty"-as a concession to the years, he manfully abandoned bourbon and stogies six weeks ago -weatherbeaten Elder Statesman John Nance Garner, longtime (1903-32) Texas Congressman, two-term (1933-41) Vice President, spruced up in a new blue suit and his old battered Stetson for a misty-eyed celebration of his goth birthday. On hand for the doings: some 3,000 of the home folks in dusty Uvalde, a loyal guard of political cronies, including ex-President Harry Truman, House Speaker...
...delighted that this distinguished statesman accepted our invitation," said Owen. "During his stay, Winthrop will hold at least one evening meeting for members of the House, and perhaps a semi-public forum on foreign policy...
Mehmet Fuat Koprulu, Turkish statesman, and Muhammed Nizamuddin, professor of Persian at the University of Osmania in India, are already in Cambridge. They will be joined late this month by Shujiro Shimada, Curator in the Department of Art at Kyoto National Museum...