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...sailboat racing up close. The passenger ferries came out packed to the railings with ogling tourists pushing and shoving to get a view. The large craft listed to the side facing the action as the mob jeered a patrol boat engaged in battle with the portly ferry, trying to herd it back behind the lines...
What saves it, aside from good performances by Burt Reynolds and a thundering herd of supporting grotesques, is, of all things, a tough, tiny nut of valid social criticism...
...populist Republican Congressman from Minnesota, had taught him to be totally self-reliant-"One boy's a boy; two boys are half a boy; three boys are no boy at all," Lindbergh fondly quoted him as saying-and the son always had a vigorous contempt for the herd mentality. Itching to fly ever since he first saw an airplane as a child, Lindbergh spent a year and a half at the University of Wisconsin. Then, unable to sit any longer in a classroom, he enrolled in a flying school in Nebraska...
...public arena is increasingly ceded to a few: athletes, politicians, performers. But their audience at least retains the ability to judge for itself, to realize that one man's best may be another's worst. Once the power to discriminate is left to others, that audience becomes herd but not seen, a mass to be manipulated. One would do better to choose the second best because it appeals rather than the best because it is dictated. Far too many delights have gone untried because they have come in second in some arbitrary rating system. Given the success...
...Critic Harold Rosenberg (he made the fourth group) once described intellectuals as a "herd of independent minds." That is largely true of the 70 leading intellectuals on Kadushin's list. Yet leading is precisely what contemporary intellectuals do not do much of. The record indicates that most of them followed black activists into the race issue and young antiwar militants into opposing the Viet Nam War. But then so did nearly everyone else who was not furious at being denied a job because of his color or threatened with having to fight a tainted...