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...climax of World Cup competition approached, it seemed that the momentous events strained conventional reporting techniques of factual description and analysis. What was required instead was the imaginative reach of a fiction writer. TIME asked British Novelist Anthony Burgess, from whose eclectic mind have sprung such novels as A Clockwork Orange and Enderby, to comment on the Cup. Burgess watched some of the early action in Germany. Here are some of his thoughts...
Airport executives, pointing out that Dallas-Fort Worth's remoteness spares area residents the maddening air and noise pollution of most metropolitan airports, are confident that their colossus will eventually function like a clockwork doll. Meanwhile, more and more Texas travelers are turning to Love...
...anyone that he still faces a skyful of troubles converting these plans into actuality, he takes an artistic pleasure in having even conceived them. "It was very satisfying from an aesthetic point of view," he told TIME Correspondent John Tompkins. "The structure that we evolved is almost like a clockwork mechanism. It is not going to start until all the pieces are in place, but when it starts it is going to run very well...
Anyone who read A Clockwork Orange before having his eyeballs poached by Stanley Kubrick's movie version knows Anthony Burgess as a writer with a hearty appetite for the cosmic bite into such subjects as original sin, good v. evil and spiritual sloth-not to mention the need for individual moral choice. He is also intimidatingly prolific and versatile...
...parties. It could appear to outsiders as walled off and desirous a world, and to insiders it could offer a future as closed. Even further, just as Gatsby intrigued with gamblers and built a bootlegger's paradise, Hollywood's machinery worked more like a crap game than like clockwork. Few moguls were unlike, at least in the way they came by their fortunes, descendants of Gatsby...