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...George Ball, "the theologian," and "the last man in Washington to write his own speeches," warning that Viet Nam might require 300,000 American troops. Kennedy's answer: "George, you're crazier than hell...
...AINT ANY CRAZIER than the average asshole on the street," decides Randle P. McMurphy, the hero of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest after only a short time inside a state mental hospital. From Shakespeare to Marnt-Sade to Durrenmatt, writers have attempted to probe the implications of insanity and to articulate the paradoxes that best madness. McMurphy soon learns that, as one of the doctors puts it, "the asylum is 'society in miniature.'" From his first boisterous appearance, crashing in as a recent "committal" from the state prison farm, to when he lies stretched...
Many psychiatrists are less impressed by the incidence of emotional disorder in blacks than by their ability to find positive and useful ways of living with the severe stresses imposed by their environment. "I don't know why they aren't crazier than they are," says Dr. Hugh F. Butts, a black psychiatrist from Manhattan. Dr. Robert Sharpley of Boston, a black therapist whose practice includes a number of black students from Harvard, feels that the black capacity to survive against huge odds deserves more attention than it has received. He speculates that the kind of solidarity...
...greed, ignorance, spreading violence and assorted immoralities. What Wylie wants, in his calmer moments, is fair enough: more regard for ecology, less plundering of natural resources, higher ethical standards all the way from suburbia to government. He may even be right when he says that modern man is "surely crazier than we realize." But he undercuts his own arguments by his hysterically hectoring tone. Christians, he writes, "made all the world a hell." He testifies he has seen scientists at work who are "corrupt, mindless, ignorant." In the end, his book induces only the normal long-sermon doze...
Wednesday, October 12 BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* A wealthy socialite (Jean Simmons) plays loving patroness to a sculptor (Bradford Dillman) who abandons art for money in "Crazier Than Cotton...