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Much of Wheeler's argument is based on folk legend, alleged intrigues and half-formed plots to free Napoleon yet another time. But what is convincing is Wheeler's enthusiasm for a subject in whose name nearly as much ink has been spilled as blood...
...Beginning Was the End (Praeger; $7.95), the enthusiasm of Author Oscar Kiss Maerth spills over in red ink. The book, subtitled Man came into being through cannibalism-intelligence can be eaten, bears all the markings of pristine eccentricity: a big theme, a closed system of self-perpetuating logic, a disdain for accepted thought, no specific scientific references, no index and no bibliography. Kiss Maerth, who is described as a man born in Yugoslavia who spent many years in a Chinese Buddhist monastery and now lives at Lake Como, seems never to have heard of Lamarckian biology, T.D. Lysenko...
...advertising jingle proclaims that "Pan Am makes the going great," but recently things have been going anything but great for Pan American World Airways. Indeed the airline seems to have been hit by nearly every conceivable disaster, from a seemingly unstoppable flow of red ink to a string of air crashes. Financially, the biggest calamity has been the soaring price of jet fuel brought on by the Arab oil offensive. Prices rose so high during the last quarter of 1973 that what had been expected to be Pan Am's first profitable year since 1969 turned into another...
...chronological ordering is at times confusing as well as ridiculous. For example, Blotner opens the description of the writing of Absalom, Absalom! in 1935 in his usual meticulous way: "On March 30 he had taken a sheet of paper with printed margins and written at the top, in blue ink, the title Absalom, Absalom!. He underlined it twice and dated the sheet in the upper left hand corner." He then describes two false starts set at Harvard. So far, very interesting. After a plot analysis of the first chapter, Blotner breaks to tell us about a three-hour flying practice...
...enviable reputation among U.S. intellectuals for its scholarly dissent and literate insights. Though its readership is solid (circ. 100,000) as well as influential, NR faces mounting postal and publishing costs. Recently the weekly has run at a small profit, which is unusual for opinion journals. But red ink is always a threat, and Harrison, 58, figured that it was time for a younger angel with a muscular bankroll...