European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes thursday August 27,1987 today s crossword the Power game in Washington by Russell Baker a letter to he Zdilor or the Washington Post recently criticized he men Down there for wearing Power neckties. Personally i find it beguiling and t sympathize with those men although the letter writer s description of what a Power Necktie looks like was vague. Small Brown figures on a yellow Back ground tort or apparently. A genuine Power Necktie of course would be a rope with a noose but these Power things that people Wear and do nowadays Aren t really about Power. They Are about powerlessness. They Are ways people devise to kid themselves out of feeling like victims of a world out of control. In new York where kidding yourself is half the game they Eal Power lunches and Power breakfasts ride in Power automobiles live at Power addresses Wear Power eyeglasses till out their expense accounts in Power offices and frolic at Power panics. I am not making this up. These people really talk about Power food Power addresses Power this and Power that with Only the faintest Trace of irony and no self mockery at All. You can set How new yorkers might need to kid Ihm solves this Way. Being big time in new York is nol such a big Deal even for the truly big timers who can be summoned Down to Washington and there Browbeaten abused and slandered by some barely literate congressman who breakfasts Power Esaly on grits and lunches on bean soup. So new York produces this incessant pretence to Power which accounts for a lot of its Petty cruelty As Well As its farce. You hear grown men expensively tailored even manicured and sprayed with imported to menu. Boasting about the location of their theater seals. Minor executives behave like Bush league Mussolini to make humanity Gap cat the Power they Wield. It is both depressing and ludicrous but quite understandable once you grasp thai in Vic people arc trying desperately to persuade themselves hat they arc nol utterly powerless. I used to think there was no place in the country that could create such feelings of powerlessness As new York. But now in Washington Power neckties. The one place in the country where there Wai real Power i once though was Washington they had the Button. They had the irs. They had the marines the b-52s, the cia., the food and drug administration the Fri the Federal penitentiaries. But especially they had All those civil service peo ple stretching in unbroken ranks to the horizon far ther than the Eye could see each and every one of them highly skilled at making you understand that you amounted to nothing absolutely nothing and that if you did t quit bothering them and go away you would soon regret it. If Power Knickknacks have reached Washington the sense of must now be Complete. Bui Why surely it is because the country has now been mechanized beyond any human s Power Loob Tain a sensible result from the machinery s labor. Drive through the fringes of any Large metropolitan area and what do you see Large Glass office build Ings under construction. We All Deal with these highly trained people in class boxes housing the machinery of powerlessness. Lately i have been begging an airline which employs a Batch of them to return the $238 it snatched from me last october just before cancelling my flight nothing registers with the marvellously trained in competent or imbecile machines. Letters Are ignored. When i phone i m told we have been highly trained not Only to know nothing but also to do nothing sir. Please soak your head and Nave 4 Nice she hangs up. I retort with a Power sneer. A new York Tom tit memories made of movie idols by Dick West Washington hardly had the nation had time to recover from the 25th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe s death before it was dealt another blow to the memory Box by the Lola anniversary of Elvis Presley s death. Thank goodness this year marked Only the 37th anniversary of James Dean s death. I Don t think i could have stood another bout of blockbuster reminiscing. There is no doubt that Dean died younger than either Presley or Monroe. There is doubt however that he Wasa swivel hipped As either. As to whether Dean could and with Monroe is something he never got a Chance to prove. At the time he was killed in an automobile Accident in 1955 at the age of 24, Dean had been featured in Only three films. Since her death a age 35, Monroe has been the subject of so or More books about 17 plays and almost a dozen television movies. Can James Mon Roe author of the Monroe doctrine say As much when was the last time you saw a movie on television about the male Monroe if Hollywood had made a flick of James Monroe s life should Dean or Presley play the title role that depends i would suppose on we Cher the picture was a musical. One reason we did t see such a musical was that James Monroe was a Mere . President whereas Marilyn Monroe was both a movie Queen and a reign ing sex goddess. Small wonder she is belter remembered. 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