Word: statesmanship
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Otherwise, the campaign has turned almost entirely on the candidates' personalities. Schmidt has capitalized on his basic popularity-60% of the electorate currently approve of his performance as Chancellor-and on his image as a nearly ideal embodiment of the leadership qualities West Germans seek: confidence, firmness and statesmanship-not to mention telegenic good looks. In campaign speeches to large, lustily cheering crowds, he proudly points to the country's healthy economy, its fervent commitment to detente, and its enhanced international stature. Strauss, he warns, would "squander" these hard-won achievements...
...Minister, he is nonetheless regarded as a hard-lining cold warrior. His bulldog appearance is caricatured almost daily. His rallies are beset by hecklers who hurl rotten eggs and tomatoes. Strauss's efforts to improve his image have backfired, leaving an impression of uncertainty and artificiality rather than statesmanship...
...populist touch has now all but vanished. Today he is aloof, unabashedly aristocratic, and fashions himself a closet literary critic with a passion for Guy de Maupassant. He has learned to manipulate the constitution and the press to serve his interests, and today projects an almost frigid aura of statesmanship. Giscard now practices with atavistic veracity de Gaulle's most imperial trait--standing at a calculated distance form his people. And judging from his re-election prospects, the French approve...
Similarly, on a visit to the Afghan-Pakistani border in February, he allowed himself to be photographed posing with a Chinese-made AK-47 automatic rifle. Good fun, maybe, but definitely not statesmanship...
...than he or anyone else had expected. Instead of the anticipated division and discord, the seven al lies had affirmed their unity in the face of Soviet provocation and set a common policy to combat inflation and develop energy alternatives to oil. Moreover, Carter had shown signs of the statesmanship that many critics had found missing during his 3½ years in the White House...