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Most surprisingly, Bismarck judged his fellow Junkers to be overly stiff and inbred. He recommended that they loosen up and get some elan by marrying Jews; an ideal match, he said, "would bring together a Christian stallion of German breed with a Jewish mare." His whole life was dedicated to making the once lowly Prussian monarchs the most powerful kings of Europe; yet he lied to them and fought with them, sneered that the Hohenzollerns were Johnny-come-latelies from Swabia...
Helio Jaguaribe is an eclectic revolutionary--one of the "new breed" of Latin American intellectuals. In a land known for its militant theorists and dogmatic unarxists, he is a pragmatic and flexible practitioner. Born and educated in Brazil, he founded a steel mill in 1953, managed it for ten years, and then resigned when General Castelo Branco seized control of the government in early 1964; he found only a "minimum of compatibility" with the new regime...
...pressure has become staggering. But Rorimer, like most U.S. museum directors, welcomes the crowds."Familiarity with beauty can only breed more beauty, he believes, adding, "We have more people interested in art today than when these old masterpieces were produced." To make the turnstiles turn faster, and thus acquaint more people with their artistic heritage, he arranged in 1963 for Da Vinci's Mona Lisa to make a guest appearance at the Met, certain that it would increase museum attendance by more than a million...
This is Indian South America, land of the ancient Incas and Spanish conquistadores, whose 45 million descendants have always lived in mutually exclusive societies: the white Spanish minority that owns the wealth and the hopeless, anonymous Indian and half-breed majority that exists in squalid slums or labors on Andean haciendas. "In the sweep of all its history," says Belaúnde, "our land has been the theater of endless bloody struggles. And always there remained great gulfs between the conquerors and the conquered...
Asbell spends most of his pages talking about the educational deficiencies that keep us from taking full advantage of automation. He discusses illiteracy, hard-core poverty, and the rural areas and Negro ghettoes that breed the unemployable. A man who mines coal all day does not, reports Asbell, come out "an adventure-minded man. Most of his intellectual powers must go toward the discipline of accepting his dull, dank existence without questioning, without wondering, without upsetting the influence of ambition. To live, one's ambition must die." The "wretched tasks" and discrimination of the "pre-automation" age are, according...