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...this mixture of happenstance, deliberate policy, improvised decisions and national persistence can be found the explanation for the speed of West Germany's comeback. But the ideas and leadership of Konrad Adenauer explain, more than anything else, the character of the comeback...
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 29-year-old editor of the conservative weekly L'Express: "The French mystery is impotence-that lucidity should be followed by nothing. If you listen to an ex-minister, he will explain with serenity what might have been done; if you meet a man in office today he will brilliantly explain what should be done. The ideas are seductive, the directions are clearly indicated, the plans are detailed. France conceived the universe and then nothing, or almost nothing, happens . . . The men who govern today or have governed in recent years (they are practically the same...
Adolph ("The Baron") Rupp, University of Kentucky's basketball coach, is not a modest man. When asked to explain Kentucky's court success, Rupp has a ready reply: "That's easy. It's good coaching." Though Rupp's answer may affront rival coaches, the record backs up his contention. In Rupp's 23 coaching years, Kentucky teams have won more than 85% of their games, 14 Southeastern Conference titles, three N.C.A.A. championships, one National Invitation Tournament, one Olympic title. Unhappily, some of the Olympians were caught taking bribes (TIME...
Courage on the Plains. "We have to make the patient feel that the staff is interested in him as a person," says Edna Wagner. "We explain that he may have several days of tests before the doctors decide on the treatment for his case. We may remind a wind-tanned cowpoke from Lubbock, who's telling of the rugged old days on the plains, that he may need some of that same courage here. We have to reassure some, like the old Negro who said: 'I ain't afraid of dying-I'm just afraid...
There were other books, important by any standard, which never got their real due from the bookstore traffic. Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind skillfully defined a political and philosophical tradition whose qualities are often misinterpreted, even by its friends. In Five Gentlemen of Japan, Frank Gibney explained briefly and readably what more formal scholars have failed to explain: the Japanese national character, its breakdown in World War II, and the reasons why free nations can now welcome the Japanese to their company. Of the trickle of foreign books critical of the U.S., the most sensible and understanding...