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...United Nations. In 1966, he retired to join the Council on Foreign Relations. In a 1964 book, The Age of Triumph and Frustration: Modern Dialogues, one of Yost's imaginary speakers sums up a diplomat's view of Realpolitik: "The hopes of international peace depend upon a firm disregard of the rights and wrongs of disputes, on which there can almost never be agreement, and on a purpose either to settle them by compromise or to ignore them...
...once a professional acrobat-and he likes cigars. The son of a Los Angeles accountant, he took off as a youth for the logging camps of the Pacific Northwest. Since then, he has worked as a carpenter, plasterer and handyman, fought as a Marine in two wars before hitting upon his present trade. Today, he lives with his second wife Joanna, daughter of Industrial Designer Lester Beall, and works in the front room of the cottage they live in on Father Beall's gentlemanly farm in Brookfield Center, Conn...
Skirted Subjects. In truth, that is what she has been playing all along. Though she is a superb comedienne and a subtle actress, Reid is called upon to moo and moan around the set with scarcely a shred of alleviating humanity. York's innate beauty and growing skills are dissipated in a role that calls for little more than wide eyes and elliptical chatter. What is most wrong with The Killing of Sister George is its essential conception. Director Robert Aldrich has regrettably decided to make this adaptation of Frank Marcus' play into pure Hollywood Gothica...
...Bertha. The Krupps followed strictest rules of primogeniture, loading the whole of family wealth and power upon the eldest child. Siblings were absorbed into the firm, but only as drab underlings. After Fritz's death in 1902, the succession fell to his daughter, Bertha, and led to the long reign of a king-consort, Gustav von Bohlen und Hal-bach. Hand-picked by the Kaiser to marry the munitions business, he was also granted the right to use the Krupp name and to pass it along, though only for one generation and only to his eldest...
...energy of the poetry and the drawings is boredom, which drives the desire and lust of "the true voyager," one of "those who move simply to move -- like lost balloons!" Each illustration has a dark brushstroked background, as if it were an image cast upon a dark imagination -- "a mirage of agony...