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When Alexander Wiley asked him about his "thoughts on your faith," Glenn might easily have faltered, or given an embarrassed or fatuous reply, but his forthright answer won an ovation from the audience. "I can't say that while in orbit you sit there and pray," he said. "It's a very busy time . . . My religion is not a fire-engine type of religion-not one to be called on in emergency and then put God back in the woodwork. My peace has been made with my maker for a number of years, so I had no particular...
Independence of mind and forthright expression marked the course of his life. Born in Shanghai, his father was a geographer, his mother an illiterate peasant (who chose his wife for him when he was eleven). Hu Shih was an intellectual prodigy, won a Boxer Indemnity scholarship to Cornell (where he was called "Doc"). He went on to study at Columbia under the pragmatic philosopher John Dewey and became one of his outstanding disciples. Hu Shih once said that philosophy was his profession, literature his entertainment, politics his obligation. Literature was much more than just enjoyment: on his return to China...
...statesman, Neutralist U Nu has sometimes professed to see little difference between the Communist powers and the West. But as a dramatist, he is as forthright a champion of democracy as any democrat could wish. Sample dialogue (between supporting characters...
More Than Money. Hornung's fortunes-and Green Bay's-took a rapid turn for the better with the arrival of Coach Lombardi in 1959. A former football player, law student, physics teacher and college coach, Lombardi is a hard-nosed disciplinarian and an advocate of forthright, bone-rattling football. At Green Bay, Lombardi's first job was to find a man around whom he could build an offense-a hard-running halfback who could throw a pass on the run. "Hornung was the type of halfback I had to have," Lombardi says. "I made...
...album called Stock Market Profits for the Sophisticated Investor, presumably for the investor who is not sophisticated enough to read Crane's columns or books. Occupying six twelve-inch sides, it is as long as many complete operas, is salted with Crane's forthright advice: "Get the hell out at the first sign of high water...