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...sheer drama few novelists would dare invent the stories of these correspondents: Cecil Brown (one of the long-forgotten Murrow boys) plunging off a sinking ship into the South China Sea; Eric Sevareid parachuting out of a doomed plane over the Himalayas and being rescued by a tribe of headhunters; William L. Shirer risking imprisonment by providing the first accounts of France's capitulation to Hitler; Charles Collingwood, the high-living, womanizing dandy, demonstrating incredible courage during the North Africa campaign. Dominating the story from London is Murrow himself, bringing the Battle of Britain and the Blitz back...
Princess Margaret's saga runs throughout the narrative, showing that today's young royals did not invent bad behavior. Margaret was prettier and wittier than her sister, but Elizabeth got the throne. Shortly thereafter, Margaret told her sister and sovereign that she loved the divorced Group Captain Peter Townsend and wanted to marry him. Scarred by memories of the abdication and cautious in her role as head of the Church of England, Elizabeth turned her down; Margaret never really recovered, and the episode may have left the Queen permanently incapable of disciplining her family. Margaret's subsequent marriage to photographer...
...CANNOT KNOW IF A MACHINE THINKS until you define thought. One way to have a thinking machine is to invent a definition of thought that fits whatever it is that your machine does. Then, if this definition is too close to what humans do, you have only to invent another, safer definition of what humans do. This sort of deus ex machina should ease the philosophical anxiety surrounding the whole argument...I think. STAN SEARS Los Angeles...
...plot, which rivals "Candide" in its implausibility, centers around three American fugitives, the Widow Begbick (Valerie Eaton), Trinity Moses (Bob Grady), and Fatty the Procurist (Eric Aubin), who in a desperate attempt to make money found a city of pleasure in the desolate Alabama wilderness. The trio invent the name "Mahagonny," (meaning "city of nets," according to the characters) and fill the city with workers, criminals, pimps and prostitutes, offering weary adventurers a life of pure hedonism. "Mahagonny," like Brecht himself, is decidedly anti-capitalist and even anarchistic, and the doomed city exemplifies the amazing freedoms and pleasures...
Obviously, there are race-relation problems in Atlanta, as there are everywhere. The South did not invent racism. Take one look at the number of tenured minority professors at any Ivy League school and you'll see that we're not even the only ones who institutionalized it. But railing against the "craven degenerates" who owned slaves 130 years ago will not change our problems now. We must stop taking pot-shots at historical targets and begin to examine more deeply the roots of our problems. Only then will we be able to solve them. Blaming Bubba won't change...