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Last October, police in Attleboro, Mass., obtained a confession from Martin G. Reagan, of North Attleboro and East Providence, R.I., who police said had been beaten by unknown assailants who apparently wanted to learn the location of the stolen coins.
"The idea was, instead of a drunken cocktail party, lo have a poetry reading," explained Poel Allen Ginsberg. The grizzled guru of the '60s then sat down cross-legged before a Manhattan audience of some 200 to celebrate his new book, Allen Verbatim, in verse with harmonium accompaniment Afterward...
With consummate theatrical brio, Shaffer has attuned the audience to some of its deepest desires-sin, guilt, confession, atonement and a degree of redemption. Dare one say that he has also blinded the audience to his exaltation of deranged violence as religious passion and his derogation of civilizing reason as...
Forefeel of Fame. "Apart from incipient lunacy," writes Vadim, "I have been in excellent health throughout adulthood." He can be pleased with a literary career, which brought him in youth the heady "forefeel of fame" and later allowed him to strut as "a fat, famous writer in his powerful forties...
The lesson of human experience is that there are only two roads to historic rehabilitation for men caught like Nixon. One is to stand trial by a jury of peers, accept the verdict and whatever punishment may be meted out. The other is to make a full confession. Nixon has...