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...comrades. Watching him grow increasingly frustrated at their madness gives the audience fodder for amusement rather than a plea for sympathy. Leach portrays the perfect Yossarian--a man who has as many cyclical complexes as those around him, but whose personality grows pale in comparison to the army-green circus going on around...
...escalates the crisis to suit both his interests and (he thinks) those of the hapless Baily, who pulled the stunt only as a last-ditch effort to recover his job at the museum, and is bewildered by the chubbub he has created. Predictably, Brackett loses control of the media circus (complete with clowns, in this version), and the situation spins swiftly towards disaster...
...while some Faculty members voiced concerns that Harvard is falling victim to a circus mentality in inviting Jiang, others said Harvard is fulfilling the proper role of a prestigious university...
...heart of the book is the trial, a judicial three-ring circus featuring jury tampering, espionage, soaring oratory and federal meddling, all set against a background of corruption that makes the contemporary political scene seem virginal by comparison. The liveliest section describes the kidnapping of "Big Bill" Haywood and other union leaders by Pinkerton detective James McParland. Unable to extradite his prey legally from their Colorado headquarters, McParland abducted them, bundled them onto a train and ordered the tracks cleared all the way to Idaho. Such episodes of swashbuckling adventure bring out the crack reporter in Lukas as well...
Many students complained about the media circus surrounding Krueger's death...