--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > Of course, people are always free to do what they like, > > > > > but are you comfortable with advising people so cavalierly > > > > > to go explicitly against the wishes of the guy who taught > > > > > them in the first place? > > > > > > > > If the guy has gone crazy, absolutely. > > > > > > But you're *certain* the's gone crazy? > > > > Me? Yeah, I'm pretty convinced of it. > > Only with this post have I seen the parallel: The > Caine Mutiny. The independent TM teachers are > mutineers who've done what they've done to save > the ship. > > http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046816/ > > In the book, though -- I don't remember if the movie > covers this ground or not -- Queeg is vindicated in the end.
In a way. In the movie, the last scene -- after the alleged mutineers triumph at court and are found not guilty -- is the celebration of the acquited and their friends. Then their advocate -- played by Jose Ferrer -- comes in drunk and says that they and himself all let down Queeg because they should have been a friend to him. > > from http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/caine-mutiny- text.html > > Keefer quickly said, "Speaking, from ignorance, sir, my, understanding is that mental > disability is a relative thing. Captain Queeg was a very strict disciplinarian, and extremely > meticulous in hunting down the smallest matters, and quite insistent in having his own > way in all things. He was not the easiest person in the world to reason with. It wasn't my > place to question his judgments, but there were several occasions when I thought he bore > down too hard and spent excessive time on small matters. Those are the things that were > recorded in the medical log. They were very unpleasant. But to jump from them to a > conclusion that the captain was a maniac -I was compelled in all honesty to warn Maryk > against doing that." > > - testimony by officer Keefer > > " Queeg deserved better at my hands. I owed him a favor, 'don't you see? He stopped > Hermann Goering from washing his fat behind with my mother." > > - the attorney Greenwald to the acquitted officers of the Caine ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
