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...read William Faulkner's letter on the recent Idlewild disaster [Judgments & Prophecies-TIME, Jan. 3] with mixed annoyance and surprise . . . Let Mr. Faulkner ask any qualified pilot whether he would prefer "the seat of his pants" or ILS for a landing with a 200-foot ceiling . . . It seems useless and senseless to blame a "gadget" for such a disaster, especially in view of the evidence, unless of course one is subject to an artistic antimechanical bias. Although it is possible that the thesis of man's superstitious dependence on his more complicated tools might be worthy of some...
...Author Faulkner should stick to novels. Nobody connected with "gadgets" thinks that they are infallible. That's why we don't land completely blind . . . and one can only speculate on what went on in the pilot's mind...
...grieve for Author Faulkner's momentary invasion of the electronic field and hope he does not drive...
...machines. For years, people have been looking on with smug approval as their mechanical creations grew bigger and, if not better, at least more complicated. Now, however, the machines have been getting smug themselves, and quite a few people have been growing just a little alarmed. William Faulkner, for instance, last week published a letter in the Times decrying the way airplanes now fly, and fall, themselves. The Council order shows the tide of reaction has reached even to Cambridge. For buses have been loitering in the Square...
Novelist WILLIAM FAULKNER, in a letter to the New York TIMES...