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...power-and-money elite sent their children to St. Albans (where Al Gore studied later on) or to Georgetown Prep, the Jesuits' country-club campus, out in Bethesda. Although Pat's father was a prospering accountant, many Gonzaga boys harbored a shame of the excluded, and a concomitant anger, as if we came from the immigrant servant class (as indeed many Catholics did) and were being educated, however brilliantly, belowstairs. The Jesuits' accomplishment was to redirect our aggressions into intellectual contact sports--debating, oratory...
True, we have already created machines that can run faster, lift better, see farther than we can. But cars, cranes and telescopes shame only our limbs and our senses, not our essence. Thinking is our specialty, or so we think. How could a device capable of nothing more than calculation (of the possible moves) and scoring (of the relative strengths of the resulting positions) possibly beat a human with a lifetime of experience, instant pattern recognition, unfathomable intuition and a killer instinct...
...rare bright spot came via the first scene featuring Danton Char (Ben Ibriated) and Jesse Hawkes (Dixie Ticonderoga) together. Their humorous blend of dance, slapstick and song put all but Andrew Burlinson's polished Marquesa to shame, even if it did stretch the bounds of Char's Bogart-infused voice...
These names, to be sure, do not constitute anyone's idea of a celebrity A-list. It would be comforting to assume that the Collins--Random House imbroglio arose because the publisher finally felt shame at the prospect of putting out more bad prose under a big name. But it is equally possible, as Collins claims, that Random House decided the market for brand-label fiction was collapsing (or at least the market for the Joan Collins brand, once Dynasty left the air in 1989) and that the publisher could never earn back the $4 million it had promised...
ALTHOUGH I WOULDN'T VOTE FOR HIM, Forbes seems bright enough for the presidency. It's a shame that he's hiding his brains behind his Johnny One-Note song about a 17% flat tax. MARGARET EISEN Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania Via E-mail...