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Wall of Privacy. In dreamlike slow motion. Author Waller unfolds all the false leads, the endless waits, the newspaper clamors and police tricks of another day-and finally the bitter legal battles over reprieve and execution stays that Caryl Chessman might have admired for their exploitation of the law's delay...
...agin' atheism, agnosticism, romanticism, rationalism, humanism, positivism, existentialism and cubism. He is agin' progressive educators. Method actors, permissive parents, Vedantists, Taoists, Zen Buddhists and Bohemians. Getting personal, he is agin' Jean Jacques Rousseau, Arthur Schopenhauer. Walt Whitman, Alfred Kinsey. Adlai Stevenson, Aldous Huxley, Jack Paar, Caryl Chessman, Erich Fromm, Boris Pasternak, Charles Van Doren, Tennessee Williams, Françoise Sagan, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Archibald MacLeish, Albert Camus. Samuel Beckett, D. T. Suzuki and James F. Powers. He is also agin...
...being unloved and unwanted. But don't blame it on me, the very center around which the whole universe revolves." Topsy-turvily, compassion is extended to the evildoer rather than to his victims. Thus the recent U.S. scene has offered the spectacle of "The Martyr as Manly Rapist" (Caryl Chessman), "The Martyr as High-Minded Gigolo" (Chance Wayne in Sweet Bird of Youth), and "The Martyr as Put-Upon Professor" (Charles Van Doren, self-proclaimed victim of the TV quiz riggings). The ultimate in 20th century "compassion" is to declare God irresponsible. In a Jules Feiffer cartoon a kindly...
Closed Case. To the Katangese, that closed the case. "I forbid the United Nations to take positions in this matter,"said Munongo, adding by way of explanation that the U.N. had never concerned itself about Sacco and Vanzetti, the Rosenbergs, Caryl Chessman, Draja Mikhailovich or King Feisal. As for any J.K. investigation, Katanga President Moise Tshombe snapped: "I couldn't give a damn...
...Washington sources wondered whether he could refuse a draft for a second race against Kennedy in four years. For the moment, the job in Sacramento seemed very tempting: Democratic Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown was still sloshing around in troubled waters, churned up by his dithering over the execution of Caryl Chessman (TIME cover, March 21) and his ineffectual posturings as leader of the California delegation at the 1960 convention in Los Angeles. But Brown was completing a highly successful and popular legislative program (including a $1.75 billion water bond plan, the largest in the country), and in another year...