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Other doctors, notably William Carlos Williams, have combined literature and medicine. Boris Pasternak, in Doctor Zhivago, regarded the fusion as a ministry to body and spirit. Ronald Glasser, 31, considers his excursion into prose less a vocation than a special necessity of the moment, a response to the anguish and perplexity of young soldiers who are, he believes, essentially children. He has no immediate plans to write anything else...
...well. The spy holes on the door opened every ten minutes, the lights clicked on and off all night in a mad psychedelic light show. We were subjected to the "hot and cold water treatment" of having a roommate (usually a spy) and then enduring the anguish of solitary confinement (five months of it)--all this I knew to be the daily lot of the woman that I had decided to marry, in spite of war, in spite of barbed wire and hate, and in spite of the Secret Police who told me: "It is totally within our power whether...
...East Germany with Elizabeth and then take me out and interrogate me and put me away again in a work camp on espionage charges, and that if that wasn't enough they would destroy my personal existence (Existenz) after I was released. But what caused me the most moral anguish was their constant reminder that they had the sole power to determine whether or not Elizabeth would be released to go to the West to marry...
...Chaplain and First Sergeant seem, in their own ways, understanding enough. The sergeant private's anguish family" and "motivation" problems. The Chaplain, a Negro, offers to talk with him at any time. Both higher-ups are split between their sympathy for Hickman and the programmed reactions of their military routine. At one point, the chaplain slips into: "All of life is really a lot of ups and downs..." Which somewhat dazes the would-be suicide...
...make up for their generally skimpy substance. Louis Reed's rock-lyric, "Sweet Jane," begs for music, but it might not bear too many listenings. Elizabeth Fenton's "More Rain", on the other hand, is a list of the conditions of a strained relationship that builds an undertone of anguish by effectively calculated repetition and an ironic sense of restraint...