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...Messiah." Freud claimed that he had seen Herzl in a dream before they met. Others were less impressed. The Emperor Franz Josef, proud of his nation's liberal airs, fumed: "What would have become of this ungrateful Herzl had there not been equality of rights for Jews?" Bismarck considered Zionism no more than "melancholy reveries." Even the Rothschilds saw Herzl as a crank and refused him funds...
...horse-drawn train and a vintage locomotive given prominent play in the Baltimore Sun. As in 1830, the horse won. Late editions of the Los Angeles Times featured a lead story documenting a less-than-earth-shaking expose of the low standards for scuba-diving instruction, and the Bismarck (N. Dak.) Tribune snagged readers with a seven-column head declaring: FEWER SPECIAL DEER PERMITS AVAILABLE. The Swing is a slightly manic but welcome return to normalcy after a grateful escape from the long hail of bulletins issuing from Washington. No news might even last long enough to become boring, though...
PREACHING ECONOMY. "Theology books used to be about $4.95," says the Rev. James Butler, 59, of the First Presbyterian Church in Bismarck, N. Dak. "Now they are $7, $8 or $10. You have to gulp before you buy." Because collections have not kept pace with inflation, Butler has been forced to cut the church's projects and staff to a minimum. When the parsonage fell into disrepair, the Butlers themselves repainted it and pasted up new wallpaper. "The estimates from contractors were just too high," recalls Mrs. Butler. "We didn't want the church to have...
...this case can be made, but he worries about the damage that such towering figures can cause. "Institutions are designed for an average standard of performance?a high average in fortunate societies, but still a standard reducible to approximate norms," Kissinger wrote six years ago in an essay on Bismarck...
...time, vacillating between two very different types, Franklin Roosevelt and Konrad Adenauer, I choose the former because his achievements had greater significance for world history. His demagoguery was tempered by humanity; he could not hate. He was fearless and had humor, two virtues that Bismarck, too, possessed; he radiated hope and meant well by people, which Bismarck...