Word: statesmanly
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...little irony in the fact that when the President of the U.S. finally made his trip to Europe last week, it was not to be photographed with fellow statesmen at a summit or to sign a new Atlantic Charter, but to attend a memorial service for a statesman who had criticized American foreign policy...
...expected tributes flooded in from all over the globe. President Richard Nixon called him "a man of vision, constraint, consistency and enormous strength of character." Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev praised him as "an outstanding statesman who commanded great respect in the Soviet Union." Egyptian President Anwar Sadat remembered him as a man who "proved by word and deed that he was a great friend of the Arab world." In his native France, boulevards and schools were already being named...
...England. The burly intellectual, famed for his trenchant criticism of British society and politics, went to Parliament as a Laborite in 1945, later served in Prime Minister Harold Wilson's first Cabinet and as leader of the House of Commons. From 1970 to 1972, he edited the New Statesman, the influential left-wing weekly to which he had contributed for years...
Percy obviously cared about people on an individual basis, but more than that, he had the kind of mind that fuses nature and art and life into a single, albeit often inconsistent vision. Being a planter, a statesman and a poet all at the same time is an attractive idea to Southerners because it implies having a unified, romantic world-view, where the things that govern men are the same things that govern poetry and nature. With this way of looking at the world, Percy could write about politics in one sentence, Greek drama in the next, and "the savage...
...forging Washington's new links with Peking and establishing a personal rapport with Chou, Kissinger shrewdly capitalized on China's fears of Soviet expansionism. Tuning, Kissinger readily concedes, has always played a large part in his success as a statesman. But says one Washington friend and admirer: "Sure, a lot of doors open for him. but he walks through them with class...