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...airline executives are outraged. Says Thomas Taylor, TWA's Washington vice president: "The U.S. Government should tell the British to shove it." They reject London's argument that the Bermuda arrangement has encouraged the overcapacity that results in a year-round average passenger load of less than 60%. They also dispute the British assertion that a cut in total flights would improve all the airlines' earnings; indeed, under such an arrangement the hard-pressed, unsubsidized U.S. carriers would certainly lose. U.S. airlines point out that far from having more than a fair share of the business...
...still loose, might be involved. The other notion was that somebody had been inspired by a thriller written 18 years ago by Hugh Pentecost, The Day the Children Vanished. Pentecost's tale describes the disappearance of a station wagon full of pupils. In his story, kidnapers load the wagon onto a large truck and take the children to a remote barn. The abduction is a ruse to draw people away from the local bank...
...McGuane's is an essentially adolescent sensibility, tough-talking but sentimental about how nasty death keeps intruding on his good ole boys. In the circumstances, one comes to admire Brando even more. Apparently, he was the only major participant in the project to see that it was a load of nonsense and that the only honorable course was to send it up. His efforts along that line - bless his heart - are an act of creative subversion and provide moviegoers with the one reason for seeing the film...
Current events didn't play such a large role for all of the Gov students. As one freshman noted as he struggled out of Lamont with an arm-load of Gov 40 readings, "Are you serious? If it weren't for law school, you'd never catch me in this grind...
...with any psycho-historical interpretation, though, A Prince of Our Disorder leaves one with the uneasy feeling that these neat themes may be too neat. In fact, the awesome load of testimony and historical background Mack has collected seems to almost defy generalizations. Mack has not only amassed what must amount to a warehouse full of notes--his text is followed with not less than 56 pages of footnote--he seems to have felt an obligation to use them all. (He informs us at one point that on a post-war trip through southern Europe, Lawrence stopped over in Albania...