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...Brien, introduced at the lecture as an intellectual who had successfully made the jump to elective politics, is a reknowned playwright and literary critic, and once served as assistant to former U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskold...
Those who do not share Hammarskold's philosophy will still find Markingsa rewarding book, but chiefly for the light it casts on the inner life of a prominent and powerful man. Although phrases like "to answer Yes to Someone" and "the co-inherence of all things" may have no real meaning, something they represent sustained Hammarskjold during long years when, always on the brink of physical exhaustion, he labored under tremendous pressures, often without recognition...
...Against this dismal pattern the magazine holds a genuinely impressive tract, the introduction to the Secretary General's Annual Report. The product of the late Dag Hammarskold's lucid mind, it describes concepts of the U.N. as a "static conference for resolving conflicts of interest and ideologies" (the Wiley view) or as an organization able to play an effective role in the world through executive action. The only pity of it is that it ends so suddenly...
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