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...racial cliche damaging to our minority image has lied its way into the American mind. In films, in plays, in novels, the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant is consistently portrayed as an elderly, square parent-type, a money-oriented materialist who cares more about his electromobile than his wife and children...
...surprise: maud lin is the old vernacular form of (Mary) Magdalene, usually pictured weeping: Jules Leotard was a 19th century trapeze artist; mausoleum derives from the tomb of "the wily satrap" Mausolus, in Turkey; and tawdry comes from the cheap souvenirs sold at the shrine of a 7th century Anglo-Saxon princess who was called St. Audrey...
...Senate has scored its coup de grâce against the SST. Now then, let's see if Senator Proxmire will have any second thoughts after he sees all of the Anglo-French and Soviet SSTs coming into and leaving J.F.K. Airport in New York City while our commercial airline industry withers on the vine. I think the anti-SST forces have made a very serious mistake...
...possible that the SST will rise again, if some future Congress decides that it is an economic or political necessity. Congress may well be forced to such a decision by international competition in the supersonic field. Two competitive planes, the Anglo-French Concorde and the Soviet TU-144, have been undergoing test flights for more than a year. Although British and French officials are still debating whether to continue bankrolling the Concorde, it is scheduled to begin commercial service in 1974. The Soviet TU-144 may make a dramatic appearance at the European Air Show this...
...attempting to articulate fatuities, the cast pulls out all the glottal stops. Caine shuttles between Anglo-Saxon, German and Cockney. Oscarsson, a Swede, is absurdly fanatic, with energy and witches to burn. Sharif, the first Near Eastern Westphalian, has, as ever, the wettest eyes in Christendom. Yet it is Clavell who bears prime responsibility for this drive-in Mother Courage. His battle scenes are stagy and confused; even his anachronistic editorials ("War is all I have") ring false. Clavell misunderstands the nature of historic evil, of political hysteria, and of war itself -Thirty Years' or any time, anywhere...