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MARKINGS, by Dag Hammarskjold. The late Secretary-General of the United Nations called this journal a record of "my negotiations with myself-and with God." Sometimes exalted, sometimes in despair, Hammarskjold wrote only of his mind and emotions in a series of pensees, poems and meditations that reveal the iciest diplomat of them all was at heart a God-haunted mystic...
...speech--the third annual Dag Hammarskjold Memorial Lecture--is sponsored jointly by Radcliffe and the Harvard-Radcliffe World Federalists...
...Hammarskjold Markings...
From France to the U.N. Secretariat in Manhattan came a stained-glass memorial on the themes of peace and love: a 12-ft. by 15-ft. panel designed without fee by Painter Marc Chagall, 77, as his remembrance of U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. "A poet always uses the same vocabulary," says Chagall, and his translucent sonnet displays his familiar metaphors of thin-lipped cow, floating patriarch and spiritual chicken. In Pocantico Hills, N.Y., the preserve of the Rockefellers, the Union Church received a stained-glass Chagall window depicting the good Samaritan, to be dedicated by the family...
Services were held after the deaths of both Jawaharal Nehru and Dag Hammarskjold. Hammarskjold had, however, previously received an honorary degree from the University...