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...Gaulle's strength is that, almost alone among W7estern statesmen, he has his own firm, lucid ideas about the future of the West-however disturbing these may sometimes be to his allies-and has no hesitation about pushing them. He is deeply imbued with a sense of history (see box). And at 71, he is a man of amazing diligence. Said one admiring German official: "The key to De Gaulle is evident in his speeches in German. He doesn't speak it really well, but he has a perfectly aspirated //. For a Frenchman, that's the toughest...
...waited for more, not because they expected an explicit disentanglement of the sketch's nebulous events--probably they had already become familiar with the promising ambiguities of Pinter, Ionesco, Adamov, Genet--but because the classics of the theatre of the abstract have been long-winded. This one was rapid, lucid; and also banal...
...Budget Director during the final three years of the Eisenhower Administration, Stans, 54, is billed by the syndicate as a sort of fiscal triple-threat man-an expert in both business and Government who can distill his wisdom into lucid monologues. Last weekend's column was a dark appraisal of personal bankruptcies and of the cloudy economic climate they foretell, but Stans usually attacks more general themes. A sampling...
...dreamily in three languages about beautiful women and fast cars. "Connie, vous étes une belle fille. Vous étes très sympathique." His head rolled restlessly. "É molto difficile per un corridore-molto difficile It's very hard for a racer-very hard]." Suddenly he was lucid again, instantly transported to the scene of his own near-fatal crash in the Goodwood International Grand Prix fortnight ago. 'It's bad, this crash," he said. "One hundred and twenty miles an hour. It's very bad. It was going so beautifully...
...Against this dismal pattern the magazine holds a genuinely impressive tract, the introduction to the Secretary General's Annual Report. The product of the late Dag Hammarskold's lucid mind, it describes concepts of the U.N. as a "static conference for resolving conflicts of interest and ideologies" (the Wiley view) or as an organization able to play an effective role in the world through executive action. The only pity of it is that it ends so suddenly...