Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many Jewish leaders who praise the statesman say that such media attention on his father's actions during the war is misplaced when assessing the younger von Weizsacker's actions. Rather they point out that in an era where president of Austria Kurt Waldheim has covered up his own Nazi past, von Weizsacker's frankness about his own guilt is practically unique on the world stage, and therefore worthy of honor...
...expert on the history of the Holocaust this week challenged the selection of the president of West Germany as Commencement speaker saying the European statesman has systematically lied in defense of his father who was a chief diplomat for Nazi Germany...
...skepticism also leaves the author unmoved. A British journalist and former editor of the New Statesman, Johnson seems to have had a bellyful of bland uncertainty. Besides, the feverish riddles of Ezekiel and the prophetic agonies of Job make better copy than the Tractatus of Spinoza. Johnson singles out the 17th century philosopher as the sort of non-Jewish Jew who sacrifices the soul of rationalism to cold logic. He quotes Soviet Writer Isaac Babel's self-mocking definition of a Jewish intellectual ("a man with spectacles on his nose and autumn in his heart") and brands Marx and Freud...
...control, when choice committee assignments were being handed out to eager freshmen. His Red-scare tactics benefited immensely from the awful example of Senator Joseph McCarthy: "McCarthy's charges were so extreme, his inability to back them up so obvious, that he made Nixon look like a scholar and statesman in comparison." The outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 practically guaranteed his victory in the Senate race against Douglas, who, Ambrose points out, inaugurated the mudslinging in that notoriously dirty campaign by charging that Nixon was soft on Communism...
...political impresarios are eager to get their respective Senators and House members on center stage, believing this may be the best chance to raise a heretofore unnoticed statesman to worldwide prominence. Television producers are a good deal more cautious. If every one of those 26 people has to give an + opening statement, which may be necessary to preserve decorum, and the first witness is the pedantic Robert McFarlane, as is now expected, a countrywide snore may rise in the first few hours...