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Burgess, 1973 James Agee lecturer, told an audience of 150 people in Lowell Lecture Hall the background and motives behind his writing A Clockwork Orange...
Social conditions are currently forcing man to serve only the roles imposed upon him by society, whether or not he wants to fulfill these roles, Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange said last night...
Cyrano. Anthony Burgess scripted this musical adaptation of Rostand's play, so it should have plenty of panache, even if it doesn't go as smoothly as clockwork, 7:30 at the Colonial...
...room with a whore to dissuade him from joining the Dominican order. But the deprogramming practiced by to day's soul snatchers seems suspiciously like a religious version of the Ludovico technique - that brain-blowing treatment administered to Alex, the anti-hero in Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange. It was designed to make him acceptable to society by ridding him of his sado-sexual violence. In the process Alex also lost his free will...
...only for those who enjoy The Last Tango in Paris (as I probably will not), but too bad for people like me who enjoy Peckinpah and believe that A Clockwork Orange was among the very best films directed by an American in the last decade. To those who say that art is sacred and should take priority over social health, I have no reply--except to say that I disagree. But opponents of art censorship must--and I believe will--increasingly recognize that total freedom exacts a heavy price in social health. By the same token, supporters of censorship must...