Word: statesmanly
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...student leaders strongly emphasize their independence from the New Left-to the point of rigorously denying the radical projects any form of endorsement. They have not only rejected any connection between their own summer project and Vietnam Summer, the national project directed by Lee Webb, an elder statesman of the student radical movement. They have objected to any form of publicity on the part of Vietnam Summer which even vaguely associates the two projects or implies support...
Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others...
...Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State at the time, der Alte saw Communism as an implacable threat to his Christian conception of Western civilization. Dulles and Adenauer became fast friends. As with no other American diplomat, Adenauer felt that Dulles always told Bonn the truth. Dulles was, in fact, the statesman der Alte most admired be cause "he thought clearly, thought ahead, and he kept his promises...
...writing results, King declared, from a "fetish for objectivity." Reporters "divest news of its own inherent drama. They cast away the succulent flesh and offer the reader dry bones, coated with an insipid sauce of superfluous verbiage. They reject the flashing, illuminating phrase, which can make an unknown foreign statesman come vividly alive, or a dash of wit which may relieve the tedium unavoidably contained in much important news...
...oddest sights in the fields and forests was a stocky, monkish fellow in a Basque beret and rimless glasses, cocking an ear to all the amorous twittering, and furiously scribbling music on manuscript paper clipped to a board. It was French Composer Olivier Messiaen, 58, elder statesman of the far-out realm of 20th century music, gathering new themes for his compositions. "Birds are the greatest musicians," he insists. "You will never find in their song a mistake of rhythm, melody or counterpoint...