Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cool Command. So far, Nixon has rejected the bait. He is consciously playing the statesman, in cool command of his passions and his party. He is aware that controversial stands would endanger one flank of support or the other. So far, he has succeeded in holding the liberal Republicans who opposed him for the nomination. He is more worried about the other flank. To prevent wholesale defections of Republicans and disgruntled Democrats to Wallace, he has, consequently, adopted a "yes, but" attitude. He is for the non-proliferation treaty, but against ratification just now?a position that could...
...publicly repudiate all white racists," he said. "I call upon you to publicly repudiate all black racists. This, so far, you have not been willing to do." Seventy of the Negroes angrily rose and walked out. State Senator Verda Welcome, who had praised Agnew as "a wonderful, honest statesman" after the antimiscegenation law was repealed, now snapped: "He is a wolf in sheep's clothing...
...political observers expected Gruening's defeat. He was a formidable candidate with a distinguished and remarkably varied career as editor, author, historian and statesman. The son of a prominent New York physician, Gruening earned an M.D. at Harvard Medical School but abandoned that profession to become a newsman. At 27 he was managing editor of the Boston Traveler, one of the first editors in the country to demand that his writers treat Negroes fairly in their stories. At the end of World War I he became managing editor of The Nation, used the magazine's liberal platform...
...Brecht's The Exception and the Rule. By virtue of his achievements with the Philharmonic and as composer, author, pianist and TV personality-not to say his new eminence as a 50-year-old-Bernstein is entitled to be called American music's most ar ticulate elder statesman, a status that he will doubtless relish. Last week, before departing for Brussels, he paused at his Park Avenue duplex for a talk with TIME. Some of his observations...
...Earl Mazo found in Nixon a "paradoxical combination of qualities that bring to mind Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Joe McCarthy." The intervening years have polished Nixon and made him well-to-do, but they have not simplified him. He can still sound like the high-minded statesman and act like the cunning politico. He can talk eloquently of ideals and yet seem always preoccupied with tactics. He can plink out Let Me Call You Sweetheart for reporters on a piano or rib himself on television talk shows, but the grin never seems quite at home on his strong...