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...world knows Sir Oswald Mosley best at his worst-as the leader of the Union of British Fascists, who, flanked by black-shirted Biff Boys in the 1930s, praised Mussolini and Hitler and parroted their antiSemitism. But in fact, Mosley, now 78, has mesmerized, enraged and even amused generations of Englishmen, first as a Conservative M.P., then as an Independent Liberal, a Socialist Laborite, a Fascist isolationist and, finally, as a postwar internationalist preaching European unity. As the sixth in a line of Yorkshire baronets, Mosley frequently wore his own black shirt under a Savile Row suit...
With the nerve center of the play pithed, evaluating the rest of the production requires a certain amount of mental taxidermy, imagining how all the members would look were they attached to a vital form. At the end of the play, Biff, the son most deeply scarred with Willy's broken dreams and promises, falls upon Willy sobbing, in recognition of the common bond that still exists beneath the spite and anger. It should be a very moving moment, but it doesn't work in this production. And that was not Biff's fault--it was Willy...
...have any professional credentials in psychology. Nevertheless, they claim their treatment always works. They liken it to an encounter group session. Other accounts of deprogramming indicate that the process, which can last from two days to two weeks, is something between a brainwashing and an inquisition. According to Pat ("Biff") Alexander, 23, a former member of the Jesus movement who recanted and is now a member of Patrick's team, the first step is an in tensive interrogation, sometimes lasting from morning until midnight. This is designed to "break" the subject by demolishing his false religious views. When...
Lockwood, who had been a devoted member of a small group called the New Testament Missionary Fellowship, at first resisted deprogramming. According to Biff Alexander: "He said we were all possessed by the devil, and that he was suffering for Jesus. He spoke in tongues." During the ordeal Wes was not allowed to leave the apartment where he was held in Masontown. "I worked harder that night than I had in years," says Father Flohr. "You have to talk and talk and talk until your head falls off." As Wes himself recounted the experience last week to TIME...
...been initiated into the homosexual experience. Next time, he says, "I won't make the mistake of showing any excitement or pleasure." It seems as though Williams is playing the old American theme of the vacuity of our uprooted lives, of weeds breeding in the gilding tank, echoing Biff in Death of a Salesman, "I just can't take hold of some kind of life." But he adds something more. At one point, he brings the bar owner, the only character with roots to his "confessional." The bar owner says that he is content running a small place with...