Love That System Re: KPFK

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Sat Mar 23 09:06:59 PST 2002



>>From: rhisiart at earthlink.net
>>
>>Herman Wouk, carrol. and Wouk was much less banal than coop. ;-)
>>
>>R
>
>The Caine Mutiny was most interesting as both novel and movie. It's
>fascinating to see a novelist offer such a dim view of the sly,
>manipulative ways of novelists, as he does in his portrayal of Lt.
>Keefer (if I remember it right) who really was the architect of the
>Caine Mutiny, as Lt. Barney Greenwald points out in his scorching
>confrontation with Keefer. The story also has a really stinging
>surprise ending with a (I must admit) hard-hitting defense of the
>professional military as people who -- whatever their limitations --
>keep savagery at bay.
>
>Carl

There is a long discussion of _The Caine Mutiny_ in William H. Whyte, _The Organization Man_, Chapter 19, "Love That System," <http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/whyte-chap19.html>. -- Yoshie

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