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WARD 7, by Valeriy Tarsis. The Ukrainian writer was railroaded into an insane asylum in 1962 when he published The Bluebottle, a vigorous attack on Soviet tyranny. Not surprisingly, he found that the other patients' only lunacy was to criticize Khrushchev's Russia, and now he voices the plight of his fellow inmates...
This bit of gimmickry works, and works beautifully, and so does almost everything Ritchietries. Furthermore, the cast is competent in the lesser roles and excellent in the three most important one--three physicists who have been confined to an asylum. This all adds up to the best production Boston has seen this summer...
BOOTHBAY, ME., Boothbay Playhouse: The Physicists. Three atomic scientists in an insane asylum try to outmad each other. Swiss Playwright Friedrich Duerrenmatt probes the problem of the trio's moral responsibility for the destructiveness of their discoveries...
Arrests & Asylum. Kádár presumably got some propaganda mileage out of the Vatican pact, which allowed Pope Paul to appoint six Hungarian bishops of his own choosing. Hungary's leader has given little in return. Though some Hungarian bishops have again been allowed to visit Rome, several hundred priests are still forbidden to officiate at holy services. With one minor exception, religious orders are outlawed. Two bishops are under house arrest in Hejce, and two others are banned from their dioceses. Hungary's most famous symbol of opposition to Communism, Jósef Cardinal Mindszenty...
Grilled Ambassador. Boumedienne's Algeria-for-Algerians theme could hardly have cheered a score of "liberation" movements that had found funds and asylum in Algeria while battling colonialism in "oppressed" lands from the Congo to the Canary Islands. To make sure that its message would not be lost on Moscow, the government gave the Soviet ambassador "friendly warning" that it would no longer provide a forum for Communist propaganda. The Algiers correspondent for France's Communist daily L'Humanite, which bitterly denounced the coup, was booted out of the country for "exaggerated" reporting. Police also closed...