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...rest of the world, Dutch politics seems as sane and stolid as a Rembrandt burgher - and most of the time it is. Every few years, however, The Netherlands is gripped by a Cabinet crisis that leaves the country rudderless for even longer than customary in Italy or pre-Gaullist France. In 1956 the governmental vacuum lasted for 122 days, while the old Cabinet carried on as caretaker. By last week, when Queen Juliana flew back from an Italian vacation to swear in new Prime Minister Victor Marijnen, the government had taken Dutch leave for 70 days...
...scrutiny is largely a waste of time. Steady pressure from Washington, including the McCarran Act, which requires U.S. Communist publications to be labeled as propaganda, deprives them of overt support from Moscow. Thus abandoned, the Worker, etc., seem to be drifting rudderless in Moscow's wake. Gus Hall, general secretary of the U.S. Communist Party and a regular Kremlin visitor, was usually good for a navigational fix-until the State Department yanked his passport...
...occasional student, though, is worried that a Midtown education will leave him rudderless in the hard and heavy waters of the world. Said Tom Perley, 10: "I want to be a doctor, and so next year I'm going to public school for the sixth grade so I can get used to doing homework." But the teachers of Midtown's children like the school fine. Exulted Teacher John Moran: "You know what I did yesterday? Peeled apples!" Walter Merlino advertises his own case as a cheering example. "They might not want to be organization men." he said, finding...
Rebelling against this kind of rudderless, over-humanistic Protestantism, Karl Barth first achieved fame after World War I with his radical insistence on the transcendence of God. His terms for it-e.g., the "wholly other" and the "infinite qualitative distinction"-became slogans for a new school of theologians. "How we cleared things away!" he reminisces. "And we did almost nothing but clear away! Everything which even remotely smacked of mysticism and morality, of pietism and romanticism, or even of idealism, was suspected and sharply interdicted or bracketed with reservations which sounded actually prohibitive! What should really have been only...
Takikawa. wearing a floppy white hat and open-necked shirt against the hot Kyushu sun. promised to let the myths fall where they may. "Prewar history taught in the schools has been discarded as false," he explained. "A race which loses its history becomes a rudderless ship. That's the dangerous position Japan is in today. To get out of it, the Japanese must look facts in the face." To the local citizens who have always considered themselves heaven-sent. Takikawa bluntly said: "We will not distort or slant our findings to please you. If this sounds cold...