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...DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD: A SPIRITUAL PORTRAIT by Sven Stolpe. 127 pages. Scribner...
...Dag Hammarskjöld was a man almost nobody knew. His diary, Markings, published three years after his death (TIME, Oct. 23, 1964), surprised even his close associates, for it showed that the brilliant economist, banker, and Secretary-General of the U.N. was a mystical man, unfathomed during his lifetime, constantly tortured by self-doubt and despair...
Martin delivered the fourth annual Dag Hammarskjold Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Radcliffe College and the Harvard Radcliffe World Federalists. His topic was "Prospects for Peacekeeping...
...learn to stain glass. Since then, in a torrent of production, he has done two windows for the Metz Cathedral, followed by twelve windows for the Hadassah Medical Center's synagogue in Jerusalem. Last fall he finished a memorial glass panel at the United Nations for the late Dag Hammarskjold and another for the Rockefeller family's church. In total, his stained glass immeasurably enriches this century's wealth in an arcane craft. He has tackled another long-neglected art: weavers in the famous Gobelins tapestry works are even now finishing a triptych of Old Testament hangings...
...highly important lesser ways. It will continue to be an occasional peacemaker in smaller disputes; a decompression chamber even for large quarrels; a forum for the views, right or wrong, of all nations; and a reminder, as nagging as conscience, of the dream of world order. The U.N., as Dag Hammarskjökl used to say, only mirrors the world as it really is-its idealism and its baseness, its nobility and its savagery...