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...final form, the Washington conference communiqué produced an eloquent restatement of the principles that guided it: "Despotisms have often been able to produce spectacular monuments. But the price has been heavy. For all peoples yearn for intellectual and economic freedom, the more so if from their bondage they see others manifest the glory of freedom. Even despots are forced to permit freedom to grow by an evolutionary process, or in time there will be violent revolution...
...with a comic style for which he is much beholden to William Holden. But the real star of the show is Emmy. What redblooded moviegoing male will be able to resist the seductive lisp with which she murmurs pocketa. and ever so tenderly, queep? Indeed, what husband will not yearn for a female he can shut up, simply by not asking questions...
Ironically, the writers of the Lucky Jim school have something to say. They have become authentic chroniclers of Britain's shrinking pains. They are sociocultural D.P.s. uprooted from the class of their birth and ill at ease in the accents of their betters. Enviously they yearn for the privileges of the aristocracy, without its responsibilities. They have a fierce as well as a flabby honesty. It can be said of each of them, as one critic said of Lucky Jim: "He has one skin too few. but his is not the sensitiveness of the young man in earlier twentieth...
...Roman Catholic convert, tells of Edvard Kansdorf, an expatriate middle-aged Swede dying of cancer in Paris. He is a relapsed convert to Catholicism who tries to drown his consciousness as well as his conscience in cognac. The nausea rather than the pain of living makes him almost yearn for death. Around him revolve other people and other lives like planets in a void, always near enough to hail but never near enough to help...
...world's top civil-service berth ($20,000 a year tax free and $35,000 for expenses) shows promise of developing into an executive post of potentially immense power. Partly, this is a matter of impersonal historic forces-among them the tendency of a frightened legislature to yearn for a strong executive; partly, it reflects a U.S. decision to put its weight behind (or to lean against) the U.N. But partly, the expansion of power reflects the personal confidence which Hammarskjold has inspired...