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...then still in a Washington, D.C., insane asylum, subject to possible trial for treason because of his wartime broadcasts for Mussolini. The Bollingen Prize, established by Financier Paul Mellon in 1945, at that time was administered by the Library of Congress, was shortly moved to the Yale Library...
Eliot married Vivienne Haigh, an artist's daughter, in 1915. After 1933, she was almost constantly in an asylum. During the difficult years of her illness, Eliot never spoke of her, but never failed to visit her once a week unless he was out of the country. She died in 1947. In 1957 he married his secretary at Faber & Faber, Valerie Fletcher, a plumply attractive woman nearly 40 years younger. He blossomed. They went dancing, held hands at plays. He even wrote love scenes into his last play, The Elder Statesman (they were eased out by the producer...
After Spain's General Francisco Franco told Argentina's ex-Dictator Juan Perón, 69, to stop meddling in Argentine politics or get out of Spain, those close to Perón felt that pride would force the aging exile to seek asylum elsewhere. But life is good at Perón's opulent villa in Madrid, and for the moment at least comfort overcame pride. Last week Perón surrendered to Franco's terms, solemnly promising to abstain from all political skulduggery "while I remain in this country...
...London's biggest sensation is a play about the Marquis de Sade, written by a little-known German playwright named Peter Weiss. De Sade is a prisoner in a lunatic asylum during the French Revolution. He holds up the cynical end of long philosophical discussions with the revolutionary Marat, who sits in a tub. Under De Sade's influence, the other inmates-male lechers, burnt-out whores, renegade priests, and varied slobbering maniacs-weave through a kind of play within the play, which ends with the death of Marat. He is stabbed in his tub by the patriot...
...full title of this work is The 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. Although it has been variously interpreted as a study in meaninglessness and a parable of Hitlerism, few people pretend to understand it. It is nonetheless a theatergoing must. If you live in London and have not seen it, the thing to say is, "No, but I have read the title...