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...hours over 20 years) and impressive body of work, and it?s the overwhelming extant evidence of the Wellesian preoccupations and attitudes that gave birth to "Kane" and its kin. Nearly every actor who appeared in "Kane" - Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Ray Collins, George Coulouris, Agnes Moorehead,William Alland, Paul Stewart - had worked with Welles on radio. Herman J. Mankiewicz, the screenwriter of "Kane," had penned several "Campbell Playhouse" episodes, including "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" and "Huckleberry Finn." Houseman, who midwifed the "Kane" script, effectively produced the radio shows while Welles made mischief on Broadway or in Hollywood. Herrmann...
...parallel tracks until they collide in 1941, is a two-hour tornado of a documentary, with rare clips of the 1936 Macbeth, some quaint home movies of Hearst's costume parties, reminiscences by such Welles colleagues as lighting designer Abe Feder (still jazzy after all these years) and William Alland (who played the reporter in Kane). Best is the cogent narration, written by Lennon and Richard Ben Cramer and delivered by Cramer with tart authority, like a wiser Winchell. "Appetite drove [Welles]," he rasps. "Applause wasn't enough. He wanted amazement, the gasp of a common crowd...
...Alland's Rebuttal: Perhaps the authors of the N.Y. Review letter have not read Alexander Alland's book, The Human Imperative, any more closely than they have Wilson's. Although more speculative than Sociobiology, it tends to support the same view of man. For example, Alland states, "Thus there is the possibility that warfare among early hunting peoples could have had an effect on the evolution of modern man." 3 Alland speculates that man has either a potential or a need (he is not clear) for identification with "Socially defined objects, either humans, ideals, territory, or any combination of these...
Here identification is "the social bonding of an organism to another or a group of organisms, usually of the same species. While the ability to identify may be genetically determined..." the form of identification is not. 5 According to Alland, another human universal is the "Tendency to avoid ambiguity" which is "in part also biological." 6 Although I do not feel comfortable with so many non-operational terms, Alland has described here essentially the same characteristics of indoctrinability (Campbell 1972) and xenophobia (in Alland's terms, a distinction between a group-identified-with and others, sharpened by the "tendency...
...Alland, The Human Imperative...