FLYING THE UNFRIENDLY SKIES:
McCarthy, Abigail
FLYING THE UNFRIENDLY SKIES ABIGAIL MCCARTHY Columnists as varied in outlook as door-a stylish blonde-said disap- ...
...Senator from Minnesota, in this area...
...If you Perhaps she is not aware that the two IN BRIEF wear one," she had replied...
...My bags...
...ment, she implies that men do not, 10022...
...But Dulles airport to the plane that I and porters, but a friendly woman no one called and the clamor and the noticed my baggage checks and real- offered to share her cart with me...
...Not to worry...
...Easy Terms...
...Yet, as Ralph Nader point- MARGARET WIMSATT lives in New Haven, tyr will make the silence scream," "I ed out recently, this inefficiency and Connecticut...
...It was the fault of my travel taken by former Sen...
...Good idea," I perhaps can't see the brutality of war...
...Box 195, Irvington...
...I think it must have great and small, were nevertheless to find my bags myself...
...10633 Washington...
...he queried severely...
...He took the number of half an hour before plane time...
...A soothing agent a clever European way) and I finally ly akimbo and rush the objective said there was no problem...
...I do not help," he said was made aware that many things, such promises, and that I would have and walked off...
...During a looking German looked at the note, time...
...community destroyed...
...I understood plained my plight to a portly man who one of the reasons both Pan-Ameri- the game at last and filed the note in seemed to be in charge at the desk...
...RANCHOS, Box 2003CK, Alameda, Calif...
...I was I found my bags...
...CC, Columbia But I had checked with Pan-Am in University Press, P.O...
...It was a checked my bags through to Berlin whatever it may be, airline counter, TWA error...
...The less their vacations for a year or more...
...MARK TAYLOR chure...
...Religious...
...I have heard women refer Webster would walk on water" and best to be prudent...
...000 000 000 009000000 Religious Stamps CORRESPONDENCE COLLECT RELIGIOUS STAMPS...
...At ed about the bags and noted that it the airlines recently, and I would the end of the tunnel a very correct- was still twenty minutes until plane like to join the chorus...
...Thirty to forty and stalked ahead of me down the tain and brought back word that I thousand fans from Chile alone were long approach to the desk, disdaining was not to worry...
...1-745, Aransas Pass, Texas There are other comments in the 70336...
...14501...
...Classified payable with order...
...Smiles pull like sweaters over our name...
...Then I asked his to draft evaders as cowards...
...This time I bags...
...not on their list...
...Twelve words metaphors without subduing them to a resources have been left stranded in air- minimum...
...force, bent all our attention to our might help me...
...I learned later that it was the of the portly man who had taken my tion...
...Vacation Paradise...
...There is a climate for more than three times...
...Margaret Smith collection of poetry, but it is long for agency...
...Kunz," I said, "I will sex has a monopoly of humane or calidea with too little variation and elabo- write about this...
...said, "I'll put in a nightie...
...agent looked at the note and said that without me or the shouting men who There is the breakdown in the com- it was not his duty to help with such dispersed grumpily, saying rude demunications systems of the interna- things...
...It's plenty of time," said the BIOGRAPHY PRESS, Rt...
...I know better, my make the Pan-Am connection...
...Good long form investment...
...I said to a delighted bystander...
...Would I be able in English, "but the seats they have office which turned out to be in charge to get my bags and make my connec- not...
...It can and has Department at Manhattan College...
...REVIEWERS abused...
...successful poems here string together RATES: SOc a word, one time...
...Hubert H. Humphrey, junior Savings up to 95% on nearly 600 different titles...
...nice voice in charge of the computer, "but put some extra clothes in a carry- article that are repugnant and bigoted...
...Was ist was off without me...
...He examined my ticket with some government for help this year...
...of callousness in this...
...STAMP SERVICES, instructions...
...If he could help me get near generally enjoyable trip to Europe I said that Washington should not make the counter...
...There were no show of concern, and said, not to no sooner aboard the beetle-like con- porters and none of those wonderful worry, I would be on the next plane veyance which takes passengers from cart-contraptions which make German in an hour...
...24 Australian Xmas Abigail McCarthy (Cent...
...behavior under stress...
...Gitlin seems to see as the but it left me disheartened and feeling complementary parts of every poem...
...It is the War...
...some hours...
...Commonweal: 487...
...Kunz," he said haughtily, In closing, it is obvious that neither doubt...
...Phnom Penh But the worst is the one where she THE MISSIONARY Brothers of Charity plan a states that "Women experience war as kitchen and shelter for homeless, destitute sheet 17 Issues for $3 children in the refuQee-swollen Cambodian capital...
...painted the bedroom walls with si- over-selling on the part of the airlines MARK TAYLOR teaches in the English lence," "listen to the quiet, dissolving/ is becoming the norm...
...He did not have time to discuss of any sort...
...Todd ence between a reservation and a con- she is not aware of the hawkish stance Gitlin has produced a competent first firmation...
...I had not picked a note to give to the waiting agent...
...10016...
...time the next morning (breakfast fol- Pan-Am personnel, cheerful and The uproar continued...
...I escalators (the carts adapt to them in Britons-they bunch with elbows stiffrushed off the beetle...
...Where have you William Buckley, Ralph Nader and provingly, "It must be given to the been...
...coffee bar or tea table...
...FLYING THE UNFRIENDLY SKIES ABIGAIL MCCARTHY Columnists as varied in outlook as door-a stylish blonde-said disap- forty minutes ago...
...I explained about Brun- (Continued from page 467) Box 04, Camillus, N.Y...
...Lake Conches, Now is an admirable integration of theme Mexico...
...I was Saarinen's beautiful airport building at travelers independent of both agents to sit down until it was called...
...Some people's failure to make their connec- recall women shouting "traitors," of his images are not only fresh and tions properly...
...JAMES D. HOLMES ration, even an important idea like the My experience was more of an anrelationship of language and silence, noyance than a serious inconvenience, which Mr...
...heavy tote bags...
...monthly in advance common interest and often end with a ports far from home...
...But other images repeat a single "K-U-N-Z...
...I explainArt Buchwald have complained about agent at the end of the tunnel...
...With this state- Help for their protect can be sent to: Catholic Return Coupon from opposite page Relief Services, 1011 First Avenue, New York, N.Y...
...And I have...
...Books parently she is not aware of the efforts It was TWA's fault...
...On one occasion I can the contents had been omitted...
...Families with young children and slim 45c, seven times...
...It was los...
...John...
...Paul for 30t with approvals...
...of Sen...
...I was worried that there I doubt that there is another member of Congress, male or female, who has Books Printed was not enough time to make the conshown as much or greater compassion...
...Evidently, Straight Arrow Books, $3.95...
...Senators who voted against the Gulf of I persisted in misunderstanding, Tonkin Resolution, Wayne Morse and BUSY BEING BORN by Todd Gitlin, huffed my escort, that there was a differ- Ernest Gruening, were men...
...But he would overlook all these of Maine...
...He snorted at my complaints She entrusted my problem to the cap- matches in Berlin...
...The man at the tunnel should leted things in four languages...
...hilde...
...As I I appeal to a blue-blazered young liberated sisters, but I was tired and deplaned-a word the airlines have agent standing by, no doubt getting in hot...
...COMMONWEAL, 232 kind of punch line...
...I was recovering from a slight "Silence carved in screams," he writes accident and I had been up for thirty- DORIS GRUMBACH is literary editor of in one poem, and elsewhere, "the mar- The New Republic...
...13031...
...into the sound of which it is made," ruined vacations for retirees and workand "With every song/silence to be ers who have planned and saved for Classified heard as an accompaniment...
...crowding started again...
...mented...
...42c, thirteen times...
...He took my name...
...Mr...
...and language...
...it pursues us the collection, like "The Defeated," overseas...
...41c, three times...
...I had only a little over an hour...
...Your TWA plane came in (Continued on page 487) Commonweal: 471 •0•.•••••• on bag just in case...
...In Germany ized that the chatty young woman With much pulling and pushing we people do not queue in the effete and who checked me in had failed to got through customs and up and down non-athletic manner of Americans and check my bags through to Berlin...
...but in the best of Madison Ave., New York, N.Y...
...He looked at up the boarding pass according to his The agent immediately outside the my ticket...
...communists, ' and other epithets at a intriguing but in context, in the best I waited until I had my boarding contingent of Vietnam Veterans Against sense, startling: "If words could heal/ pass and was through the gate...
...Only $y1S per acre...
...Free bro...
...TWA would communicate with Checking myself through was not got to the desk, but a smiling BrunFrankfurt and transfer me and my so easy...
...BOOKS PRINTED from well-typed manuscripts...
...There would had something to do with maintaining going slightly awry while we, per- be an agent at the carrousel who his amateur status...
...I gathered all my courage and declear that we were going to be a little "They have the tickets," she answered termination and made for the Pan-Am late in Frankfurt...
...Pan-Am had ap- to note that I was struggling with two meet me, help me find my bags, and parently oversold on three continents...
...day of the opening of the world soccer name...
...For box numbers add 50c per insertion...
...stamps 1157 thru 1172 plus Rwandsise Popes Plus XI, XII...
...I extional airlines, for example (no doubt not have suggested it...
...Who is to say whether the Ranches "Hiatus," and "To My Enemy," there source of similar callousness created EXCEPTIONAL 5-ACRE RANCH...
...The gates lows almost immediately on the four- shoulder-shrugging, peered listlessly at opened, the boarding pass holders hour-long dinner stretch on trans-At- lists, inspected an occasional ticket poured through, and the next plane lantic flights these days) I confided and talked to each other...
...Xmas, Vatican City stamps...
...pletely surrounded by shouting, arm- name was not on the list, she comBut worry I did, and at breakfast waving men, all brandishing tickets...
...lous sentiments...
...The Pan-Am desk was com- hilde refused me a boarding pass...
...Write for free catalogue: Dept...
...At the carrousel the In due course the plane went off number-one national problem...
...nectio2i...
...my problem to the stewardess...
...Someone would en route to Berlin...
...can and Trans-World applied to the my purse...
...Watergate or spilled over from it...
...a single book (75 poems), and I would faults and put me on an extra plane Frankly, I have yet to see much evihave found it more exciting if perhaps going to Berlin if I would just get on dence of women supporting amnesty a third-not, of course, any third-of it...
...My name was COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS: New Book Sale...
...added to the language-I was given his required hours observing passenger It was my fault...
Vol. 100 • September 1974 • No. 20
