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...second act gives us the same couple, this time in an American hotel, this time confronted with sleeping sickness and a crazy southern doctor, whose son turns out to be Jan Egleson, the Mexican maniac of the earlier act. The doctor attempts, not to cure his patient, but rather to turn him into a Frankenstein character, playing on the patient's own death wish. The patient runs into the audience, and when cornered by the doctor's son and his own wife, escapes by swinging from the top of the theatre on a rope, crashing through the scenery, and bringing...
...Your article was a very fine report covering the old story about prisons, but you are in error in saying "Everyone knows what prisons are supposed to do: cure crime...
Prisons have not cured in the past, and there is not much hope they will in the future. The cure, or rehabilitation, as it is commonly called, does not come from the prison but rather from each individual convict. He and he alone makes the necessary mental changes to bring about rehabilitation...
...That Dared Not Speak Its Name is allowed to shriek and bluster in The Music Lovers. The lovers are Muscovite aesthetes and neurasthenics; the music is supplied by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, a doubly tragic figure. In 19th century Russia, where homosexuality was punishable by imprisonment, the composer sought to "cure" himself by marriage. Instead, he became party to an unconsummated charade. But his encounters with other men left him with ineradicable self-disgust...
...cure for this is to add Mayor Lindsay and all the city officials and welfare personnel on federal and state levels who have contributed to this situation to the ranks of the permanently unemployed...