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High-Flying Kite. Freeman has always been a hard driver. His father, proprietor of a men's clothing store in Minneapolis, went broke during the Depression, and when the time came for Orville to go to the University of Minnesota, he had to work his way. He made Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude, played football, served on the debating team and got elected president of the university council. After graduation, he went to law school...
...next full-length film. Just released in Italy, Fellini's new "8½" begins with . . . what have we here? Soaring in the skies above Rome is not Christ but Marcello Mastroianni, all 154 pounds of him up there flying on a string like a great dihedral kite...
...truth that often is close to surrealism. He has done a beautiful silver sculpture of an old lady's hand, which he placed in a fading plush box and gave the title Tradition. There is a dumpy dwarf called Uncle Sam, and an extraordinarily graceful Man with a Kite. Durchanek has also done a robust George Washington, who gazes in bewilderment at a large falcon chained to his wrist. This, he explains, is the way Washington might react if he came back to America today. "I wonder what he would say. He might say, 'My, my, what...
Chronic curiosity led Benjamin Franklin to fly a kite into a thunderstorm-he got a mild shock and proof that lightning is electrical. A year later, a Russian professor tried the experiment and was killed by a bolt of lightning that passed through his head. Safely insulated scientists have tried to duplicate Franklin's trick, hopeful that they can learn to cause lightning at will. But by last week even the U.S. Department of Defense was convinced that it is no small stunt to lure lightning out of a passing cloud...
...Franklin's Kite. The 17th century is the great divide, as Steiner sees it. After that, tragedy is doomed by a triple decadence-the decline of the word, the myth, and the audience. Verse succumbed to prose, and prose itself, Steiner feels, is now debased, stale and lackluster. Both the Greek myths and Christian values were ravaged by rationalism. In tragedy, "lightning is a messenger. But it can no longer be so once Benjamin Franklin has flown a kite to it." The audience changed most of all. The rising middle class was not interested in the fall of princes...