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Died. Rear Admiral Ellis Mark Zacharias, 71, brash, bristly intelligence and psychological warfare expert, a self-styled World War II Cassandra who claimed to have predicted Pearl Harbor nine months in advance, and to have ferreted out a Japanese surrender feeler 13 days before Hiroshima, yet never convinced the Navy's topside of either story; of a heart attack; in West Springfield...
...Cassandra's Scream. Amusingly caustic is Steiner's account of the literary bootleggers who pour new psychoanalytic wine in the old stolen bottles of the Greek myths. Gide, for instance, produced an Oedipus "who arrives at the extraordinary insight that his marriage to Jocasta was evil because it drew him back to his childhood and thus prevented the free development of his personality." White forgoing these lapses of taste, T. S. Eliot merely domesticates the Greek myths till they are as tame as Old Possum's pet cals...
...Constant Vision. Almost 40 years and 20 books later, Mumford's perspective has broadened, but the vision has scarcely changed: it is still Cassandra's, ominous and unheeded. Writes Mumford in The City in History: "Another century of such 'progress' may work irreparable damage upon the human race. Instead of deliberately creating an environment more effective than the ancient city, . . . our present methods would smooth out differences and reduce potentialities, to create a state of mindless unconsciousness . The polite name for this creature is 'man-in-space,' but the correct phrase...
...horse laugh at the officious, twittering host who self-righteously wear the badge stenciled liberal. Kennedy has fled this loose company." Said the Detroit News: "For good team-picking, we cannot remember an incoming President who has done as well as Kennedy." And Columnist Joseph Alsop almost flung his Cassandra robes into the flames: "Unless the signs deceive, a new Administration with an exceptional level of human competence will be the final result of the methodical manhunt that President-elect Kennedy has been conducting...
...others. Daniel Seltzer's independent, personable Ulysses, Robert Thurman's willowy, boyish Troilus, William Fitz-Hugh's dim-witted Ajax with his fatuous pride, Alvarez Bulos' slippery Pandarus with oily speech and manners, David Stone's manly Hector, Travis Linn's pious Nestor, Jean Weston's over-wrought, unkempt Cassandra--all have individuality in one degree or another...