He was highly intelligent, supple, and farseeing as a strategist, and adept as a diplomat, not only abroad but also within the foreign-policy bureaucracy in Washington.
The yearbook of the 1946 Naval R.O.T.C. class at Tufts College offered this, perhaps farseeing, summation: " 'Patty' will ever be remembered as the man with the curved pipe, the coed and that stein of brown October ale..
Recorded several months before the election, the album feels farseeing if not prophetic in its accounting of current affairs.
And this, in turn, made less of Ross -- in the eyes of many New Yorker veterans, painfully less -- because it turned him from the great and farseeing editor they knew into a kind of hapless Thurber husband who lucked out by hiring Thurber.
A comparison of platform heights and general admission fees for some of the world's tallest buildings, which shall henceforth be known as the vertigo index, shows that there are many cheaper alternatives for a farseeing fix.
His repairing of the Inland Sea route, however, and his encouragement of trade with Song China by which the Taira became wealthy were farseeing measures that distinguished Kiyomori from earlier Fujiwara regents.
But, beginning in the nineteen-fifties, Geoffrey Elton, a historian at Cambridge, had argued that Cromwell was a farseeing modern statesman who had transformed the English government from a personal fiefdom of the king to a bureaucratic parliamentary structure that could survive royal incompetence and enact reforms through legislation rather than through fiat.
He was a defender of liberty; no, a power-hungry mountebank — a pioneer environmentalist, a bloodthirsty hunter; a farseeing visionary, an energetic clerk.
It is hard to say exactly how this was conveyed: something implacable in the set of the lips, something farseeing (seeing what?) in the eyes, some new and crushing determination in the walk, something peremptory in the voice.
"It remains a mystery," Cooper concludes of the postwar Red Scare, "why such a farseeing, thoughtful person as Wilson would let any of that occur".
