Editorial March 4, 1985 Issue

Wings

ALLISON W. PHINNEY

A Czechoslovakian film cartoon was shown one evening at a large international conference. It had been preceded by days of mostly tedious speeches and parliamentary maneuvering. But the droll animated cartoon did more than anything else to bring the meetings alive.

It was called "To Fly." Very simply, it showed, in black and white, a massive gray hive or hill in which people monotonously carried out repetitive, regimented tasks.

Scarcely noticed at first, one of the "ants" rose up and flew outside the hive. He soared into the sky, which immediately turned into beautiful shades of blue. One by one all the gray inhabitants of the boring tunnels and cells tentatively came out of the hive, and they too rose and flew in great, joyous arcs. By the end of the cartoon everything was in bright color. The parable touched a responsive chord, and the applause of the audience shook the rafters.

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