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What makes the novel a little more than a flighty drag is Vidal's stylish and erudite sense of humor, his sharp pokes at intellectually provocative themes, and his spoofing of literary forms: the book, he says, is really "a send-up on the nouvelle roman." In that vein, he offers metaphor after metaphor based upon far-out late-show conceits ("I whispered like Phyllis Thaxter in Thirty Seconds over Tokyo"). And he makes it Myra's thesis that the flicks of 1931 to 1945, if not the high point of Western culture, were certainly the most formative...
...that the sonic boom may not after all be a necessary evil. Last week, at a meeting of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Aerodynamicists Maurice Cahn and Gustav Andrew suggested that an electric field projected in front of a supersonic plane might eliminate the boom, and lessen drag as well...
Visual Dividend. Aerodynamicist Cahn admits that he does not have the answer to one objection raised to his paper at the A.I.A.A. meeting: the creation of a sufficiently strong electrical field might require too much power to be economical. But he points out that there would be less drag or air friction on a charged SST, reducing the power necessary to fly it at a given speed and altitude. He suggests that only further tests with larger models and wind tunnels-now being considered by Northrop, Boeing and NASA-can determine if the system is practical...
...much slaughtering." If Wilson was stripping defense to placate the "mini-England" wing of his Labor Party, he was also tightening plenty of belts among the social services. Education Minister Patrick Gordon Walker described the sessions as "heartbreaking," and Minister of Arts Jennie Lee threatened to resign-and perhaps drag others with her-if a charge for medical prescriptions is reinstated...
Primary Spark. Yet Mehta's motions are by no means shallow showmanship. They help make his performance "live all the time," in the words of Met Tenor Nicolai Gedda, who sings under Mehta in Carmen. Says Gedda: "He does not drag and he does not rush; he has the kind of pulse that is absolutely right." This is Mehta's essence as a musician: an instinct for the living pulse of a piece of music, along with a molten core of romantic feeling and a point-of-no-return commitment...