Word: burdick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a rush on inside novels about big-time politics in Washington, and each author tries to outdo the last in dreaming up fantastic political skulduggery that has never occurred and never will. The latest to climb on the badwagon are the writing teams of Burdick-Wheeler and Knebel-Bailey. Their target is the Pentagon. According to their spicy exposés, it is a den of some of the most hideous monsters this side of Cyclops' cave...
Emotional Neuters. Burdick, who swung wildly, and sometimes below the belt, at American diplomats in his book The Ugly American, swings just as hard at scientists advising the Pentagon. Walter Groteschele, Fail-Safe's villain, is a caricature of a scientist, who advocates preventive war in scholarly treatises and exults in private: "Knowing you have to die, imagine how fantastic it would be to have the power to take everyone else with you. The untold billions of them. They are murderees: born to be murdered and don't know it. And the person with his finger...
Pentagon scientists, write Burdick-Wheeler, have reduced men to automatons. An underground missile base in Colorado gives the "sensation of entering an ingenious collective coffin," populated by swarms of ''emotional neuters, technicians of a greater terror taught to ignore the unalterable end of their work...
...evaluation mission for the Peace Corps, two critics of underdeveloped U.S. statesmanship dumped some fuel on a fire they themselves ignited. Sashaying toward the Champagne Room of the Manila Hotel in the Philippines. Eugene Burdick, 43. and William J. Lederer, 50. authors of The Ugly American, were refused entry because they were wearing Bermuda shorts. Squawked Lederer: Bermuda shorts are the national costume of his homeland-Hawaii. Answered the assistant manager: "Hawaii is part of the United States, and I didn't think Bermuda shorts were the national costume there." Miffed, Lederer threatened to write a letter of protest...
...GARY R. BURDICK Oxford, Ohio...