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From boyhood onward, Patton possessed a disconcertingly literal sense of his own destiny. On a dangerous plane flight in North Africa in 1943 Patton wrote in his diary: "We nearly hit several mountains, and I was scared till I thought of my destiny, and that calmed me." He could not die, he believed, until he had achieved his "mission," something immortal. In that, he was somewhat disappointed. Patton was a swashbuckling and inventive tactician. Yet his indiscretions-the slapping incident on Sicily, his undiplomatic opinions-persuaded Dwight Eisenhower and George Marshall that however effective Patton was as a field officer...
...induce potential customers to sit back under a barrage of "authoritative data" forcing them to acknowledge that life insurance was doing its part in "the progress of the greater life values." At night and on weekends, Ives wrote symphonies and songs and sonatas, which mostly didn't get played till years later because they upset listeners too much. Ives said his two careers complemented one another: he said it helped his music when he had to "dig a little in real life...
...writing the ultimate parody of a murder mystery play and having his onstage critics sucked into the action in The Real Inspector Hound; creating a Professor of Moral Philosophy who tries to disprove Zeno's paradoxes of motion with a real hare and a real tortoise in Jumpers. Up till now, formulas like these have served Stoppard well--his plays have uniformly been among the most intelligent, enjoyable and effective theater of the last ten years. His new failure--Travesties--currently playing in London doesn't mean Stoppard has run out of things to say, but it should convince...
Divorce time comes like a fifth season in hell. Fury is king. In one scene, Johan slaps and pummels Marianne till her nose sluices blood. Yet their fiercest encounters act as unconscious aphrodisiacs leading to sudden fervid couplings. Several years pass. Johan gets married again, but not to the student. So does Marianne. They meet. The old libidinous magic still works. They head for a clandestine weekend in a country cottage, free at last, or so Bergman would have us believe, to breathe the oxygen of joy that marriage to each other had throttled...
...with a much grander scheme. Paul decides to kill muggers, and he murders a dozen of them before the police finally snag him. The cops know, however, that to announce his arrest and put him on trial would be to make a martyr of him, so they give him till sunset to get out of town...