Word: asylums
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...offer his services to the royalists. A Jordanian army officer went over to the Egyptian side. And an Egyptian intelligence officer armed with a Sten gun forced the pilot of an Egyptian turboprop airliner bound for a Red Sea port to fly him to Jordan, where he took political asylum...
...organized a Film-Makers Cooperative to rent experimental films; he has 600 films in his catalogue and a growing list of theaters all across the U.S. lined up to exhibit them. "You might say," Mekas murmurs with a sly little grin, "that the lunatics are taking over the asylum." Nothing necessarily wrong with that. Every so often an art needs to go a little crazy...
...rigorously structured environment, and he has repeatedly said he did not want to be freed anyway. Now, instead of being confined to a mental institution, he has been sentenced to life in prison. Though psychiatrists doubted he could ever have been made well enough to leave an asylum, he will be eligible in theory for prison parole in 26 years...
Journey was a semiautobiographical story of a doctor, known in the book as Ferdinand Bardamu. "I have spent so many years as a doormat in the service of so many thousands of madmen that my memories alone would fill a whole insane asylum," Céline said. The novel was such an asylum. It seemed less a novel than a charade by a troupe of epileptics-convulsed by spasms of lust, rage, fear and disgust but denied the unconsciousness that is the mercy accorded the epileptic. It was clear to most critics that it was a work of genius...
...agreements with Hungary and Bulgaria may help salve several irritants. Hungarians privately insist that the fate of József Cardinal Mindszenty, who became the chief cause of contention between the two countries when he was granted asylum in the U.S. legation during the 1956 Hungarian revolution, no longer interests them-though a 24-hour watch is maintained just in case he should decide to step outside. With Bulgaria, the major issue is Sofia's stubborn insistence on remaining the only European country that still jams Voice of America broadcasts...