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Suave, shrewd and enduring, he advanced the cause of China with Metternichian dexterity and a flair for the dramatic gesture.

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The trouble is that order is a 19th century term that suggests Metternichian arrangements of large, heavy, somewhat static entities.

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For Salvemini is less afraid of an Italian Communist revolution than he is of a Metternichian reaction, which would demoralize the democratic elements that he believes exist in Italy.

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In a Metternichian minuet that seemed strangely out of place in the nuclear age, both Kosygin and Lyndon Johnson at week's end delicately refrained from making the first move.

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