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...been talk of the risks this painting took by leaving the Louvre. They are real, though exaggerated. But the risks taken by the boys who landed one day at Arromanches*-to say nothing of those who had preceded them 25 years before-were much more certain. To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say, without raising my voice, that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening, Mr. President, is a painting which he has saved...
However, Jaspers' essential confidence does not stem from such cold comforts. He insists that "however minute a quantity the individual may be among the factors that make history, he is a factor." Just as a drop of ink stains a glass of water, so the humblest of men, in the exercise of his free will and choice, affects the course of history. Those who throw up their hands in futility have, in Jaspers' view, succumbed to the Marxist fallacy of regarding history as an irreversible process of doom or salvation. In truth, says Jaspers, the basic process...
...ranging from West Germany to Japan, were beginning to shuck off their socialist notions of economic order by government decree. Thus the tooling of U.S. fiscal responsibility to the facts of economic life set off by 1959 a revolution in dynamic ideas and plans that held out to the humblest of peoples the promise of a better life...
Despite the new riches, no one regarded the world through Utopian spectacles in 1959; desperate poverty was still a condition of life in many lands. Nevertheless, even the humblest of nations could at least look ahead to the 1960s with hope. There were two reasons for this. In their new wealth, the nations of the West were coming to recognize that the task of aiding the underdeveloped lands is not a burden that the U.S. alone should bear; it is a job to be shared. Secondly, most underdeveloped nations have modified or cast aside their once strongly held socialist notions...
...half closed as he ponders a question, the Governor is revealed as a man under great stress-and as a man who is determinedly thinking his way through." Thus made to appear as a statesman instead of a pol, Pennsylvania's Lawrence sought out Photographer Vathis. "Accept my humblest apologies, Paul." he said. "I was wrong. It was a good picture, after...