Word: statesmanly
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Nicolae Ceausescu: Builder of Modern Romania and International Statesman, 1983. In an introduction, Maxwell grilled the strongman (who was executed in the 1989 uprising): "What has, in your opinion, made you so popular with the Romanians...
Todor Zhivkov: Statesman and Builder of New Bulgaria, 1982. One year after this admiring biography was published, Zhivkov, now under house arrest for corruption and stealing state funds, awarded Maxwell the Order of Stara Planina for "the strengthening of peace between peoples...
...should not be a foregone conclusion that George Bush will be re-elected. These are times that prove Proudhon's formulation: "The fecundity of the unexpected far exceeds the statesman's prudence." Americans should enjoy the moment of victory for just that long, a moment, and after that, look beyond the war and consider that their country cannot for very long assert its authority, moral or military, unless it can bring its realities at home into closer alignment with its persona in the world...
WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN. In Europe, Robert Wilson is the most famous American stage director. In the U.S., the anti-verbal, visually lyrical elder statesman of the avant-garde is little known. He designed, mounted and adapted for Harvard's American Repertory Theater this spellbinding Ibsen dreamscape about an artist looking back and summing...
...have no gift to set a statesman right...