Isaac Goldberg — American Critic born on December 30, 1887,

Isaac Goldberg was an American journalist, author, critic, translator, editor, publisher, and lecturer. Born in Boston he studied at Harvard University and received a BA degree in 1910, a MA degree in 1911 and a PhD in 1912. He traveled to Europe as a journalist during World War I writing for the Boston Evening Transcript... (wikipedia)

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.