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Or wispom I have little. says Dr. Robert Strausz-Hupé, “for I would still trade my book of maxims for the colors, sounds, and smells around me this very morning.” One encounters considerable color in his memoirs, In My Time (Norton); but also one finds the wisdom to which this versatile gentleman and scholar modestly re- signs his claim. Because his autobiographical vol- ume was published during a news- paper strike two years ago, it is not so well known as it ought to be. Pro- fessor Strausz-Hupé, Viennese by birth, nowadays is director of the In- stitute for Foreign Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania. But in his subtle, sup- ple, and percep- tive way, he has been many things. Once I spent some days in his com- pany, at Bruges, where he had or- ganized an inter- national confer- ence. Few men,

I found, are able ; oF to talk so well, Kirk and with such unassuming authority, of so many matters, as does Strausz- Hupé.

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Or wispom I have little. says Dr. Robert Strausz-Hupé, “for I would still trade my book of maxims for the colors, sounds, and smells around me this very morning.” One encounters considerable color in his memoirs, In My Time (Norton); but also one finds the wisdom to which this versatile gentleman and scholar modestly re- signs his claim. Because his autobiographical vol- ume was published during a news- paper strike two years ago, it is not so well known as it ought to be. Pro- fessor Strausz-Hupé, Viennese by birth, nowadays is director of the In- stitute for Foreign Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania. But in his subtle, sup- ple, and percep- tive way, he has been many things. Once I spent some days in his com- pany, at Bruges, where he had or- ganized an inter- national confer- ence. Few men,

I found, are able ; oF to talk so well, Kirk and with such unassuming authority, of so many matters, as does Strausz- Hupé.