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MARKINGS, by Dag Hammarskjöld. This disturbing book is in out-of-stock demand in most of the U.S. It is a record of the religious doubts and mystical exaltations that possessed the late U.N. Secretary-General during times of crisis as well as tedium in the huge glass box on Manhattan's East River...
MARKINGS, by Dag Hammarskjöld. The late U.N. diplomat kept constant counsel with himself throughout his demanding life by recording the outlines of his mind and soul in these journals. It is an astonishing and often eloquent testament of a God-obsessed Christian who measured his actions against his creed...
...years that he served as Secretary-General, Hammarskjöld drove himself mercilessly to become "pure of heart" in the service of others: "On a really clean tablecloth, the smallest speck of dirt annoys the eye. At high altitudes, a moment's self-indulgence may mean death." Yet he remained ever and exquisitely aware of the ambiguities of even the best-intentioned human behavior and never became self-righteous about his own projects: "The 'great' commitment all too easily obscures the 'little' one. But without the humility and warmth which you have to develop...
...Call. There is one wry poem, surely written, at least in his head, during one of the U.N.'s interminable debates, which suggests Hammarskjöld was sometimes less than happy about his job as man in the middle...
Elected Calling. Hammarskjöld was clearly a poet who might have achieved eminence in that calling as he had in others he chose to follow...