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...summer of 1975, Buckley, his son, sister-in-law, assorted friends and paid hands sailed to Spain aboard Buckley's 60-ft. cutter Cyrano. Ashore, ships of state were foundering and inflation was making even rubber ducks a luxury item. Buckley's landlubbing wife Pat was waiting apprehensively ("If he comes through this alive, I'll kill him"). But with Europe finally visible to port and Africa looming to starboard, Buckley brought his crew content past changeless Gibraltar...
...Barracuda-class named Sweet Isolation, in honor of his father's political views. Much later there were ocean-going yachts bearing such names as The Panic (in honor of the Great Depression?) and Suzy Wong (in honor of the world's oldest laissez-faire enterprise?). Cyrano, in fact, might have been named Loophole. Buckley charters the boat for much of the year, making him eligible for depreciation allowances on it, deductible expenses, etc. He alludes to such arrangements but spares the details. The reader is envious enough...
Airborne is both an immensely pleasurable, digressionary account of an Atlantic crossing and an unashamed celebration of the good life in anything but the best of times. (One of the crew aboard Cyrano even had to leave the idyl to attend the dissolution of his failed business.) About himself and his class of sailing friends, Buckley writes: "We never fancied ourselves as 'everlasting children of the mysterious sea. Rather as a different generation of 'successors,' anticipated by Joseph Conrad as 'the grown-up children of a discontented earth...
...Cyrano de Bergerac, starring Jose Ferrer, Friday and Saturday, March...
...Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) includes Jose Ferrer in a captivatingly romantic performance, perfectly suited to Edmond Rostand's lightweight romantic play. Eating half a macaroon, playing with his swords, swaggering about town, Ferrer is always as flamboyant as the part demands. Michael Gordon's direction is nothing special, and the rest of the cast is mediocre in this one-man show...