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Extolling the general. House Speaker John McCormack, read off a list of his great battles that reverberated like an army drum roll: "The Marne, Meuse-Argonne, St.-Mihiel and Sedan; Bataan, Corregidor, New Guinea, Leyte, Lingayen Gulf, Manila and Borneo, Pusan and Inchon." Then McCormack presented Mac-Arthur with an engrossed copy of a special resolution, passed unanimously by both Houses of Congress, that expressed the "thanks and appreciation of the Congress and the American people" for his leadership "during and following World War II," and for his many years of effort to strengthen the ties between the Philippines...
...MAC (117 pp.)-Erih Kos-Har-courf, Brace & World...
...contribution to the economy. Barren women, seeing the whale, nudge each other and say: "There's a man for you!" Only Despic Rade, a civil service clerk, remains apart, at first wishing only to ignore the whale: "What's the whale to me?" But adoration for Big Mac sweeps up around him everywhere, and his outspoken feelings about whales soon darken...
...this superb social satire, Erih Kos, himself a Yugoslav bureaucrat, dissects the evils of conformity with a fanciful touch that scarcely disguises the depth of his intent; his message is reminiscent of lonesco's Rhinoceros-the battle for individuality is worth fighting against any odds. When Big Mac was published in Yugoslavia, orthodox critics and even Kos's admirers agreed that he had perhaps gone too far. Only the madness that eventually spills Hero Rade into the warm bath of martyrdom's delusion -the "devoted ecstasy," Kos calls it-spares Yugoslavian society the full weight...
...lesson, the joke-creating an impression of charm, not bitterness, of critical appreciation, not disloyalty. To make a point, he follows Voltaire's example and speaks in Panglossian didactics: "When we do not want to think of something, it is best to forget it." Final Kinship. In Big Mac, moreover, Kos's aim reaches far beyond Yugoslavia's frontiers. When the whale's decay at last turns a pinch-nosed public against him, Rade is still despised-he loses mistress, friends, job and wits. Finally, he feels a kinship with the whale. Big Mac is destroyed...