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...hard at work staking out a Name for Himself among the demigods of his hero-worshipping youth. Peter Bogdanovich is 34 years old; he wants to be Orson Welles when he grows up, or Howard Hawks or John Ford--or, better still, all three rolled into some penultimate titan of the still-silver screen...
...launching hard-sell campaigns. The selling effort typically includes idyllic newspaper and magazine ads, mass telephoning, softening-up cocktail parties and din ners for prospective customers, paid transportation to the site, and even free green stamps just for showing up. Many developments are models of intelligent planning, from Titan Group's Yosemite Lakes Park in California to J.M. Huber Co.'s Beaver Cove on Maine's Moosehead Lake. But fraud and misrepresentation persist, and large swatches of unspoiled wilderness are being turned into tacky subdivisions...
...that evokes and directs psychological energy." A vivid story or legend, it is but one part of a larger fabric of myths that, taken together, form a mythology that expresses a culture's attitude toward life, death and the universe around it. The Greek myth of Prometheus, the Titan who stole fire from Olympus and gave it to man, thus symbolizes the race's aspirations, even when they conflict with the powers of nature. The almost contemporary Hebrew myth of the trials of Job, on the other hand, symbolizes man's submission to a power above nature...
...acquisitions himself. Then he followed his own advice. Today, at 28, he is chairman of International Foodservice Systems Inc. (IPS), and he claims to be the youngest chief executive of any company listed on the American Stock Exchange. Figuring that Fink was not the proper name for a titan with his credentials, he dropped it in 1968 and legally became plain Steven Sanford...
After Dealing is finished, Williams will direct a full-length version of Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan. Vonnegut, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English, is currently working on the screenplay...