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...previous volumes, Durant scants parts of his story to speak at leisurely length of the poets, philosophers, and men of science he admires. He finds little space to discuss the great outward thrust that sent 17th century Englishmen, Frenchmen and Dutchmen around the globe. And although he writes of the statesmen and military leaders who helped shape the age-Cromwell, Marlborough, Peter the Great, Frederick William of Brandenburg-his sympathies lie with that other breed of 17th century men who made "all the motions of matter seem to fall into an order of law and the immensity of the universe...
...first book was a monumental failure, and of it Yevtushenko writes: "Who could care about my pretty rhymes and striking images if they were nothing but curlicues decorating a vacuum?" So he turned outward, and began to become aware of "the beautiful ... world of real people." At the same time, the young Yevtushenko was deeply imbued with "the romantic ideals of the workers and soldiers who stormed the Winter Palace in 1917," and looked upon the world "with a revolutionary's scornful gaze...
...Leverkusen and 3,000 employees. Came the cold war and Bayer in 1952 was permitted to repossess most of its prewar plants and resume full speed. Bayer's Rhineside headquarters at Leverjusen now embrace 600 buildings, including a 33-story skyscraper that is Germany's tallest. Looking Outward. A concentration on foreign markets has helped put Bayer ahead of its German competitors. Nearly half its sales are exports, and it has interests in 132 foreign companies...
...protecting the price of the stock." But some industries have persisted too long in this rearguard action-and steel is one of them. While earnings dropped year after year and the industry lagged in modernization, steelmen kept rewarding stockholders at the same level in order to present an outward picture of stability. Result: dividends amounted to 50.1% of profits in 1957 but accounted for 79.8% of profits in 1961, when ten steel companies finally slashed their payments...
...Outward, for centuries, flowed the tide of British Empire; back, in hurried decades, it ebbed. On every foreign strand that it touched, the receding tide has left a church uniquely English, yet catholic enough to survive in any climate. It is grand and symbolic that as a typical consequence, there should be in the South Pacific a bishop who follows the ancient Church of England custom by styling himself Norman New Zealand. Empire is gone; the church remains...