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Brief Nightmare. As Gann showed in his bestsellers The High and the Mighty and Twilight for the Gods, he can tell a story. And this time, he need not bother to invent a plot. He simply tells his experiences with the authority of a survivor. Gann started flying the airlines in the pre-World War II days, just when the job began to seem respectable. "Agents even urged line pilots to buy insurance." But he brushed too close to disaster too often; he realized how the unexpected can upset an actuary's figures. He remembers a ham-handed clod...
...religion," it is up to each individual "to invent his [or her] own sexual ethic according to the problems posed by the violence of his [or her] desire, taste for love affairs, or worry over conjugal fidelity...
...author has not troubled herself to invent this chess master. Paul Morphy, the only world champion at chess the U.S. has produced, was born in New Orleans in 1837. At ten, he began beating the best players in Louisiana, and at 21 he had beaten the best in the world. A year later he abandoned chess, possibly because the girl he hoped to marry scorned the game. Morphy, as Novelist Keyes resurrects him, is a colorless weakling, whose intellect, despite the fact that everyone thinks him brilliant, is an unfavorable blend of compoop and nincompoop...
What Reichenbach ended up with was an oddball odyssey including hot-rod races ("tranquilizers for young boys"), Disneyland ("America has thousands of little artificial worlds"), the annual Huntsville Penitentiary Rodeo ("Here hope is never lost"), a Los Angeles striptease school ("Certainly Americans didn't invent the naked woman, but they were the first to have thought of giving her a theoretical formation...
There were some secondary questions in the minds of the fans. One was: How many different and flashy ways could the B.C. five invent to score a basket? Another was: Would Harvard even reach the 50 mark...