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...English at their pleasures," observes an Irish Liverpudlian in The Reckoning. Sorrier still it is to see the dislocated Hibernians at theirs. For the ancients, there is the public house where they undergo the peculiar process Yeats called "withering into truth." For the film's protagonist, Michael Marler (Nicol Williamson), there is London pyramid climbing-ascending corporate strata by using the bow-and-scrape to superiors and the knee-in-groin against competitors...
Smarmy beggar, this Marler; one would walk a block out of one's way to cut him dead. Put him down in a maze or a sewer and he would run as hard. Michael's social self is pathological. With colleagues, he does not talk, he connives. As for women-including his mistress Rachel Roberts-he never makes love with them but at them. Even his father's death elicits a distorted reaction. The old man has been beaten by a Liverpool Teddy boy. The Irish cronies, suddenly repossessed by memories of the Black and Tans, keen...
Explanations. In Atlantic City, N.J., six-year-old George Patrick McLaughlin of Philadelphia was discovered hiding in a locomotive tender, promptly demanded spinach, explained he was en route to join the Marines and fight the Japs. In Jefferson County, Mo., twelve-year-old Vina Marler Nash, newly married, commented, "It's pretty nice. ... I guess I won't have to go back to school this fall." In Junction City, Kans., Marguerite See, a bus driver, drove with one foot bare, explained, "I can do a smoother job on the clutch...
...most risible stories, addressed the U. S. Senate and shook the hands of all its members, did it all over again in the House, returned to the White House for tea, said goodby, took his lady to dinner at the Canadian Legation as guest of Sir Herbert Marler, then tumbled into a Pullman bed to sleep the hard-earned sleep of the distinguished all the way back to the Canadian border under State Department escort...
...Before going to Washington Mr. King tried in vain to persuade John W. Dafoe, editor of the Winnipeg Free Press, an uncompromising low-tariff Liberal, to accept the post of Canadian Minister to Washington. His second choice was reported to be Sir Herbert Marler, for six years Canada's Minister to Tokyo...