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Stalin's daughter, after defecting from the Soviet Union while in India, applied to the United States for asylum. The State Department refused her request and arranged for Miss Stalin's asylum in Switzerland, apparently because of fear of adverse Soviet reaction...
...PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF JEAN-PAUL MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE. Under the direction of Peter Brook, Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company has transformed Peter Weiss's play into a cinematic rowdydow no less frazzle-dazzling than it was on the stage...
...weeks, and was kept afloat by gallons of pink Crimean champagne, sweet Armenian brandy and vodka. But, after Stalin died in 1953, Svetlana dropped from sight. Last week she suddenly reappeared. In one of the more spectacular defections of the cold war, she surprised the world by seeking asylum in the West...
...family and a Communist who had worked at a Soviet publishing house. In India, Svetlana visited the Singh family, scattered her companion's remains on the waters of the Ganges. Then, one day last week, she quietly slipped into the American embassy and flabbergasted American officials by requesting asylum...
Setting the play inside an insane asylum, with the actors as a palsied herd of flustered souls, is the first and most grievous wrong. It is a commonplace of Shakespearean criticism to say that some of the characters in Twelfth Night act so cruel that they seem insane, but that is no license to turn the play into a cut-rate Marat-Sade. To interpret the play that way is to say, "Be calm, audience, real people are nice. You have to be bonkers to be vicious." The audience should not be allowed to rest so easy...