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...Kenneth Donaldson had trouble sleeping. "There was the fear," he explains, "always the fear you have in your mind, I suppose, that when you go to sleep maybe someone will jump on you during the night. They never did. But you think about those things. It was a lunatic asylum." The Florida State Hospital was indeed an insane asylum, and Donaldson was committed there by his father as a "paranoid schizophrenic" in 1957. He was a college dropout and a divorced father of three; though he had held regular jobs, he had begun complaining that he was being harassed...
...help of federal funds, 500 such centers have been built in the last decade and another 100 privately supported ones have been funded. That is only about half the number needed, but it is a start. One major obstacle to this program: the prejudice in many communities against former asylum inmates...
Adding edge to quite another type of appetite is their third companion, the wife of the Swiss ambassador (Marlene Jobert). She gives the men asylum and a ride past the German checkpoint, where things do not go well. The Germans are suspicious, and the wife tears off into the desert like an ace getaway driver. The bullets fly, and it is all great fun. Jobert also takes a shine to her two anxious soldiers of fortune, although which one she truly loves becomes a source of good-humored competition...
...also been imprisoned by the Nazis) received a life sentence at that 1949 trial. Except for a few days of liberty during the 1956 freedom fighters' uprising, he was to spend the next 22 years either in prison cells, under house arrest, or in asylum in the U.S. embassy in Budapest. Many of those thousands of days were endured with little or no contact with other human beings...
From one standpoint. A Fan's Notes is a chronicle of personal failure--Exley is a middle-aged alcoholic who tries to make ends meet by teaching writing and literature to college kids. He has been in and out of an insane asylum, gone through two marriages, and now he spends most days hovering over a drink. His life, by his own admission, is a waste. With one exception: Exley can write about his problems, failures and feeling of inadequacy with honesty...