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...second point has particular bearing on any prospects that Herman Kahn will receive a blase reaction from those who indeed do absorb his voluminous and repititious points. Since only the very enthralled will bother with the book, they could naturally be expected to have violent reactions one way or the other; as for the rest--the apathetic public, silent generation, or whatever you want to call them--they neither actively care about nor know from such things, so their indifference matters little (at least at this stage...
...When they burn a cross on your lawn that's not much; you just put it out. But when they call you up on the telephone twenty or thirty times a day and say, 'We're coming to get you, Jew bastard,' it begins to bother you a little...
Brief Nightmare. As Gann showed in his bestsellers The High and the Mighty and Twilight for the Gods, he can tell a story. And this time, he need not bother to invent a plot. He simply tells his experiences with the authority of a survivor. Gann started flying the airlines in the pre-World War II days, just when the job began to seem respectable. "Agents even urged line pilots to buy insurance." But he brushed too close to disaster too often; he realized how the unexpected can upset an actuary's figures. He remembers a ham-handed clod...
...afterthought, for Chadwick's purpose is not to express any idea. "Some people want to say something visually," he says. "But I want my work to be considered for itself. What interests me is the physical result, the form, the object rather than the idea." Then why bother with making legs at all? Answers Chadwick: "One must start from somewhere or else there is chaos. And I couldn't stand the strain myself...
...sleeves straight). Although awed by his income, what he really wants is to be an actor, and he vows he will yet conquer Broadway. "My insecurity goes on and on and on," he says. "If 5,000 people were laughing and one didn't like me, it would bother me. And I can't relax. If I knock off, I think the world is rolling on and I'm not in it. I feel guilty...