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ra “What the eplsode mainly shows is how the walls are closing” on the escapades and peccadillos of the contemporary male. * |‘ In a political age, all motives become political, and the 7, itical segments of our life get cut away. Take these two Eng- -lishmen.' Why do we all (myself included) rule out a personal explanation for thelr disappearance? Sometimes your troubles. pile up on you. ‘Say your children have the measles, and your- wife Is having. another baby, and your mother, who lives with you, . ig jittery and possessive. Say you have not yet completely paid, up your phychiatrist’s bills for the analysis you had two years ago, and you flinch at the thoughts of beginning another. Wouldn'y _ you feel tempted to drop out of sight? What I am speaking up for is an old Anglo-Saxon right that goes back (I’m sure) to Magna Carta and beyond. I mean the constitutional right to get Jost. I can see why Truman and Ache. son, Attlee and Morrison, ought not to get lost. I can see how , someone like Winston Churchill couldn’t get lost even if he tried , to, But these two minor fellows were much like you and L The dream of getting lost—dropping wholly out of sight to the baffle. ment of family and friends—is as crucial in every man’s heart as the dream of omnipotent power or the’ dream of striking your enemies dead or the dream of impossible adventure, What a sorry “world it is getting to be if you or I can't disappear for a few days without having the whole FBI, French Surete, and Scotland Yard on a Continent. wide Search for us, < . . . ‘On the other ‘hand, if we do drop out for a night or two, hve now found the unanswerable expianation to bring home. ogly have to say, with a casual asmurance, that we ran into a gai of Russian agents. oes ira f PEseee “seg eee es es 4 noes PS, a Seat ER