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This is not a story by Franz Kafka or by one of his contemporary imitators. It is a recent dream remembered in precise detail by a successful New Yorker (one wife, three children, fair income, no analyst) who works with every outward appearance of contentment in one of Manhattan's new, midtown office buildings. Whatever Freudian or other analysis might make of it, the dream could serve as a perfect allegory for an era that is almost universally regarded as the Age of Anxiety. It speaks of big city towers in which life is lived in compartments and cubicles...
...drive for outward techniques is not enough to save us, spiritually or military. We are having our road to hell with good inventions." True creativity, he maintained, is the only hope of his country. In order into have creativity, Americans must foster individualism and non-conformity. "A single educational dollar spent to have a child's creativity at age six from Davy Crockett would do more than $10,000 given to a technician at 40," Viereck said...
...blasted off from a secret U.S.S.R. test base-a huge rocket that hurled into orbit a huge satellite. The satellite separated into three parts, and one of them moved outward, leaving the earth's environs forever. Then Moscow announced triumphantly that "an automatic interplanetary station'' weighing 1,419 lbs., emblazoned with the Soviet coat of arms, was on its way to Venus-or thereabouts...
...once it has become established in space its units can grow to very large size. In time, too, new types will appear, such as enormous hollow ellipsoids that spin constantly so that their inhabitants can walk upright on their inside surfaces and feel a gentle gravity pulling them outward...
...Raditzer gets his comeuppance. He brags about combat duty that he never saw, swaggers through the transport with a fat roll that he has picked up running a joint in Hawaii. But this time the Pendleton is carrying combat veterans as well as the scraped-barrel group of the outward voyage. When Raditzer is caught cheating in a below-decks poker game, they decide to pitch him overboard. In a scene that is brutal and powerfully true, Charlie Stark as his protector is tried as Raditzer has not tried him before. And from there to the powerful ending, Stark suffers...