Word: statesmanly
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...Faisal a Villain or Statesman...
...flaky American adventurer named Gilbert Imlay; he left her with an illegitimate daughter. No biographer can be expected to re-create the desperate, ineffectual rage that sometimes leads people to attempt suicide. In this clear and measured biography, Critic Claire Tomalin, the new literary editor of the New Statesman, wisely allows the facts to smolder on their own. In October 1795 Mary Wollstonecraft jumped off Putney Bridge into the Thames; the bargemen who pulled her out saved her for a more humiliating fate...
...there isn't all that much here for a contemporary supporter of women's rights to get enthusiastic about. A large part of the humor, especially of Leslie Wilson's well-played Lampito, is the humor of bitchiness, and many of the characters (with the possible exception of the statesman-like Lysistrata herself) are portrayed as bargain-hunting matrons. They find it just as difficult to lay off sex as the men do, and it can hardly be said that Aristophanes takes a position on the battle of the sexes. But sexism isn't the issue here--the only question...
...much because of his campaign but because of his performance as Greece's interim leader in the troubled months since his return. Seeking his fourth term as Premier (he previously served from 1955 to 1963), he ran a restrained campaign that sought to portray him as a statesman rather than a vote-hunting politician. He deliberately avoided taking a stand on two of the most sensitive issues: the punishment to be meted out to the former members of the military junta now in exile on the island of Kea and the question of restoring the monarchy...
Sargent's slow, careful speaking style helped him in the TV clashes against Dukakis, a sharp college debater. His relaxed manner added to the impression that the gray-haired 59-year-old was a statesman up against a young upstart...