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...have come easily to U.N. Secretary-General U Thant. A Burmese youth is taught to show respect for parents and elders by prostrating himself when he leaves their presence. And a son is never too old or too important to kowtow to his mother, as the 61-year-old statesman demonstrated last week at the Rangoon home of Daw Nan Thaung...
...Alan F. Guttmacher, president of Planned Parenthood-World Population and elder statesman of the birth-control movement, tried to turn the tables with a medical metaphor. "There have been undesirable side effects from these hearings," he said. "They have created a sense of great alarm." Guttmacher cited polls indicating that almost one-fifth of the American women who had been using the Pill had abruptly abandoned it, while as many more were thinking of doing...
When the law finally jailed Boss Tweed, the Tammany Hall czar gave his occupation as "statesman." His successor many times removed, Carmine De Sapio, was more modest when he testified recently in his own defense. Known as "The Bishop" in his glory days, De Sapio called himself an "ex-political leader...
...Cato," the nom de plume of the early 18th century Whigs Thomas Gordon and John Trenchard, who wrote Cato's Letters: Or, Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious. Also for Cato the Censor, the Roman statesman. Publius, whose name was taken by Hamilton, Madison and Jay, was a Roman moralist of the 1st century...
NOVELISTS have had less success than statesmen, if that is possible, in dealing with the ailments of the age. For one thing, they lack the statesman's surest strength, his reasonable chances of success by inadvertence. A novelist whose writing takes even the slightest notice of his society is obliged to make some sense of the times. That is his franchise, and fool luck will not help. He must be a seer or, at a minimum, the rarest sort of charlatan...