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...that year MacLeish had accepted the first of a series of public offices: that of Librarian of Congress. He also became successively head of the Office of Facts and Figures, assistant director of OWL Assistant Secretary of State, and deputy chairman of the U.S. delegation to UNESCO in Paris. It looked as if MacLeish were through as a working poet (he did not deny it) and had become a public...
Over there, for instance, was the usually gentle Pablo Picasso, who got so steamed up at a formal dinner that he removed coat and shirt, or, as a lady intellectual said: "My dear, he stripped to his navel." And over there was Mrs. Julian Huxley, wife of UNESCO's director-general, in conversation with Jerzy Borejsza, an organizer of the congress. Intellectual Borejsza was as steamed up as Painter Picasso. Said he to Mrs. Huxley: "If my wife behaved at UNESCO as you have here, I would spank her bottom...
...possible," exclaimed UNESCO's Julian Huxley, on the subject of yoga, ". . . for a man to control his breathing ... or get himself into a state of complete mystic exaltation? If we could find out how, there might be some way to turn these practices into a beneficial force for Western civilization...
...congress, hopefully standing ready to do what it could, formed a World Federation for Mental Health. Its ambitious aim: to gain for mental hygienists a larger role in determining relations between governments. W.F.M.H. will cooperate with such United Nations groups as WHO and UNESCO. Russia was not represented at London, but will be invited to join...
...Yutang, who not only wrote Importance of Living but managed to invent a Chinese typewriter, was chosen by UNESCO as just the man to head its Arts & Letters section...