Tom Wolfe published it in 1979 A classic of new journalism – Today, classical and new journalism, no matter how necessary they are, have disappeared, rather than classical, new journalism, which can look at reality and what is told about it in a distanced, ironic and wild, appropriate way. Review titled ‘Things That Should Have Happened’. What Wolfe did was reconstruct based on interviews and situations over the course of six years; he put himself into the situation, recreated it from a flexible fiction. The rhythm of the fiction is interspersed—, North American space race. Specifically, how President Eisenhower recruited a handful of test pilots “can”. Ah, that’s what they called the first astronauts.
Too many funerals
It started with an episode titled Things You Must Have, a fascinating episode dedicated to the numerous funerals that a 25-year-old couple, a test pilot and his wife, have to attend every month. Because the pilots The tests did nothing more than what their name indicated: testing. They tried to break the sound barrier and get as far away from Earth as possible; They either froze, lost consciousness and control of the device, or exploded in the attempt. So they died, their friends went to their funerals, the women lived in fear of the worst, they were paranoid and they lost their minds, amidst the deafening noise of those test flights, because of course the houses were right there at the test site.
Always admirably rebellious, Wolfe was laughing at the system – as he fortunately always did: he was a harsh and humorous critic – largely thanks to this collection of failed experiments – the motto of what lay behind it. exactly the same PAN it went like this: “Ours always fails”– This led to the conquest of space by the United States, which at first seemed to have no interest in opposing a powerful Soviet Union capable of predicting anything. In 1983, a film by Philip Kaufman based on the book was released. ‘He was chosen for his fame’ (which can now be watched as a movie) which was also an extremely absurd yet historical work. But from an unfinished story.
extreme machismo
Martha Ackmann is a journalist. He is 72 years old. St. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and once chaired the Emily Dickinson International Society. He served as president because he was an expert in his job. For nearly 20 years, Ackmann gave lectures on Dickinson at the poet’s home in Amherst, Massachusetts. Yes, such things happen. At least in the United States. Another thing Ackmann did was to write the recently published book here; because the book was first published 20 years ago, in 2003. ‘ astronauts the “forgotten” (Ediciones Luciérnaga) is the part of the story that Wolfe leaves out of the canonical, rebellious, and desacralizing “Things You Should Have.” Because while all of those astronauts were trained, 13 women were also trained with the same intention.
Officially, the first woman’s journey into space took place in 1963. Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova did this. Seceded from the Soviet Union. Ackmann’s book doesn’t mention this, but Americans, knowing that there was no difference in the education of men and women when it came to the space race on the other side of the Iron Curtain, were wondering why. This was not the case in their case. Jerrie Cobb, one of the pilots at the time Like her male counterparts, she had broken the sound barrier more than once, He could also say that they made him wear high heels under his protective coverall for the same reason. Because machismo was excessiveno matter how obviously insulting it may seem.
Therefore, Ackmann’s book can be read as the opposite or hidden side of Wolfe’s, and to Wolfe’s misconceptions can be added the delusions of rudeness suffered by 13 female pilots who were selected to train in the shadow of men. pilots They were never known as aspiring astronauts“Because we are afraid of a society that never considers that someone who is not a white man can be such a person.” desire and ability to fly into space”. A feast of details, sometimes terrifying and sometimes exciting, reflecting a society worth living in. Tom Wolfe’s narrative returnNo matter how magnificent it is, it lived and still lives locked in its own situation as a product that cannot think for itself even in the middle of a war.