17-12-2009, 08:10 AM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:John - reading your posts #9 and #141, my sense is that you use "Manchurian Candidate" primarily to describe an aspiring White Russian fascist fuhrer and secondly as a possible "colloquial" description of kamikaze pilots.
This is very different from the standard meaning of "Manchurian Candidate" as, effectively, a programmed assassin.
Jan, this is not what Richard Condon intended or indicated. And Condon is THE authority on the novel ManCand and THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE from Manchuoko, Anastase Vonsiatsky. Even John Marks titled his book, The Search for The Manchurian Candidate" not CANDIDATES. Everyone stands corrected here. Marks and Condon are the experts here plus anyone else dressed up in a Top Hat and a Walrus Moustache in order to look like Warburg. Oh, I get it both Warbucks and Warburg start with "Warb" so that makes a man about 5'9" tall the paradigm for Draper as Big Daddy Warbucks. No cigar. Maybe Warburg was 6'5" tall INCLUDING HIS TOP HAT. LOL. Now I get it. But toss the stache and add the glasses and give him 8" of height and he STILL does not look like Big Daddy Warbucks, but Wickliffe Draper does.
You should read the article about Hernando's Hideaway on Spartacus. It has about 15 factual errors out of only 20 attempts at factual statements. Talk about playing "operator", that article turned into a Tower of Babel, only because I know every detail intimately since I wrote the original.
And since no one wants to guess where Teddy Kennedy was when Neal Armstrong stepped on the moon, I will give you a little hint. He was busy double dipping, taking a little swim and soaking wet and shivering at the exact same time. He was supposed to be dead, but he woke up just in time to save his own life. Nazi Rocket Scientists triumph in THEIR Moon Landing Program, NOT JFK's and Teddy Kennedy drowns off Martha's Vineyard were supposed to be the headlines if the Nazis had any say in it. Teddy was in the front seat and Mary Jo was in the back seat. Hmmmm..... Both unconscious and comatose, but only Teddy woke up.