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...husband the moment he displays courage, and the somnambules like Maria, who sleepwalks into Robert Jordan's sleeping bag. Lady Brett Ashley is a special breed, a likable bitch. Ibsen's Nora wanted to be her own woman. Promiscuous, aggressive Brett, with her habit of calling everybody "chap," is both her own woman and her own man, with the fatal sterility of being able to give herself...
...sense of man in the hands of a man-made machine, a machine straining to be both humane in understanding and inhuman in objectivity. The strain is often hardest on the man on the bench. An English barrister thought a good judge ought to be "Oh, a happily married chap, you know; garden, kind heart, good health and not too much out for himself." To which a magistrate added: "Humanity; common sense; humility; a little law, a very clever chap would be wasted; a sense of humor...
...Martyr as High-Minded Gigolo" (Chance Wayne in Sweet Bird of Youth), and "The Martyr as Put-Upon Professor" (Charles Van Doren, self-proclaimed victim of the TV quiz riggings). The ultimate in 20th century "compassion" is to declare God irresponsible. In a Jules Feiffer cartoon a kindly chap standing on a stool concludes his monologue with God thus: "Listen up there-if you ever start a war, I'll understand. It's an attention-getting device. It's not your fault you're emotionally immature...
...marry her?'' The bachelor gulps, glances at his watch. "Too bad,'' he splutters as he dashes off, "but my time is up on the parking meter." The husband, all forgiveness, tenderly embraces an apparently contrite wife, but before they can enjoy their reconciliation, the poor chap has to take a phone call-from his mistress...
Charles Stark Draper, 59, head of M.I.T.'s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of its Instrumentation Lab, was once trying to spell out the meaning of dyne centimeter, a tiny unit of torque (twisting force). "A dyne centimeter," said Draper, a sociable chap, "is just about the amount of torque that would have to be applied to my arm to get me to take a drink." Draper's contributions to aeronautic and missile technology include the A-4 gunsight that gave U.S. Sabre jets clear superiority over Russian MIGs in Korea and the inertial guidance systems that control...