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...press is the way their assumption of the continued existence of a definable investigative elite undermines our ideals of an open, democratic society. In an ideal democratic situation, the continuation of a free and open exchange of ideas would be insured by the activities of each citizen as a "searcher" for the truth. To some extent, every citizen would be part scholar and part journalist. When Popkin and the press claim that as investigators they are an "exceptional" occupational group, they threaten to make our failure to achieve these valid democratic goals the foundation of legal policy regarding testimony...
Even as he draws near the final condition to which the cylinder is doomed, Beckett is willing to grant but an instant of irony: the admission that "in this old abode all is not yet quite for the best." Then, soon, the last searcher ceases searching and joins the ranks of the vanquished, and the last sentence comes, as exact and pitiless as the first: "So much roughly speaking for the last state of the cylinder and of this little people of searchers...if this notion is maintained...
Surprisingly for a film biography of a man who is still alive (the real Knievel performed in Madison Square Garden a month ago), the hero is portrayed as an egomaniac, a compulsive worrier and a shameless searcher after publicity. Marvin Chomsky's direction is pedestrian, but the script (by Alan Caillou, John Milius and Pat Williams) has some nice moments of quirky comedy, as when a fissure opens in the earth and a rather large automobile disappears without a trace. The film is good-naturedly skeptical and occasionally satiric about Knievel's exploits-in marked and welcome relief...
...searchers at Franklin Russell's gulf are all animal-birds, fish and exotic organisms blindly following or seeking loopholes in the natural order. Although the geographic coordinates are fictional, the author acknowledges the gulfs resemblance to Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence. "Either Gulf," he comments, "may yield whatever a searcher chooses to find...
...different Bellow came bursting out in 1953 with The Adventures of Augie March, a big, dizzy, exuberant book. Augie is tough, cheerful, naive, a searcher and an optimist. His problem: where to roost? The Jewish life of his Chicago boyhood? Wonderful! A spell as a thief? Why not? The university? That too. The book ricochets about the Chicago of Bellow's own young manhood; but if the author has a wild yarn to tell about a madman in a lifeboat, he ships Augie out on a tanker; if Mexico appeals to author or hero, off they both...