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...Feet Deep. Jonathan's history is already notorious as an almost cinematic cliché: how the infant Jonathan came to Aviation Writer Richard Bach in a kind of dream vision; how Jonathan was foolishly rejected by a flock of famous publishers (including Harper & Row, Random House and Morrow); how the book was finally, faintheartedly launched by Macmillan with no advertising budget and almost no reviews (Publishers' Weekly, hardly the most demanding medium in the world, called it "ickypoo"). How Jonathan rose slowly on its own merits or demerits, over 18 months, finding an audience?at first mainly youthful denizens...
...incredible breakthrough. But the Flock is blind to the bright future Jonathan has opened to knowledge and perfect flight. They cast him out. Alone now, Jonathan improves his flying-night navigation, slow rolls, loops, the gull bunt. Eventually two radiant gulls who can fly precise formation with him appear and take him to what he (and the reader) at first thinks is heaven...
...level, he gets a heavy message from Sullivan. Unlike Jonathan, most gulls are interested only in eating, and so do not progress. "Learn nothing," says Sullivan, "and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome." Unwilling to abandon the Flock for this elitist salvation, Jonathan goes back to his old level and acquires seven flying disciples. Despite the old ban by the Elders in the Flock, he acquires more would-be acrobatic candidates. One has a crippled wing, but Jonathan says: "You have the freedom to be yourself, your true...
Appalled legislators have introduced at least a dozen bills to make up for their forgetfulness. A flock of amendments have passed the Senate and one bill has cleared the House Ways and Means Committee. But the hastily drafted measures contain some ambiguous language, and if the House and Senate pass different measures, there may be no time to resolve the conflicts before Congress adjourns. The best chance for those who have been shortchanged would be for both chambers to unite immediately behind a bill, introduced by Congressman Fraser, clearly stipulating that Social Security recipients should continue to collect all their...
...some time. Updike has captured the hostility between culture and counterculture in the U.S., complete and entire, in about eight pages. He tells of an unbuilt, rocky hill in the center of Tarbox, his fictional Massachusetts town. There the young of the town begin roosting in a large untidy flock. They do very little; smoke some pot, drink a little beer, look down silently and passively on the activity of Main Street. The passivity, the looking-down, the doing-very-little first alarm and then enrage the citizens of Tarbox. Editorials are written, letters sent to the editor. Undirected manias...