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...laughing matter. In Pinter as in Kafka, punishment presupposes guilt, even if the crime is unspecified. The act of atonement is always arbitrary. In expiation, a Pinter hero-victim may lose his life, or his wife, or his mind. Kafka's religious overtones find no echo in Pinter. To him, the universe runs with the remorseless senselessness of a concentration camp...
...weren't fans, we were spectators plugged into a WHDH announcer whose voice sounded like breakfast, and worse yet, into distant, unimportant football games. Notre Dame vs. Purdue. How are the Boilermakers doing? Yanked back and forth in this echo chamber, one received a startling impression of America on a Saturday afternoon. A vast vacuum crossed only by baseballs, footballs, and flying hysterics...
...such is seen in this raw, poorly edited report on Bridgewater Hospital for the Criminally Insane in the Titicut area of Massachusetts. As filmed by Frederick Wiseman and John Marshall, who had the cooperation of the institute's authorities, the life of the patients seems like an echo of Marat/Sade, an existence bereft of dignity or honor. Old men are paraded naked to their cells and taunted by guards who make them rage impotently until the patients beat the walls of the cages they can never leave. A psychiatrist orders a man to be force fed, then smokes...
There is an echo of classical tragedy n the career of Georges Bidault. For two decades, beginning with his leadership of the French Resistance in World War II, his countrymen regarded him as a hero. The diminutive onetime history professor and Catholic moderate was twice Premier and nine times Foreign Minister in the Fourth Republic. He had the satisfaction of helping to write the U.N. Charter and to launch European economic unity; in Geneva in 1954, he also had the unhappy task of negotiating France's retreat from Indo-China. It was he who invited De Gaulle to take...
...Echo in the U.S. Well aware that a successful turnout would destroy their claim to represent the South Vietnamese people, the Viet Cong condemned the election weeks in advance as a "hoax." It was so rigged, they said, that its results would be on U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's desk days before the actual balloting. By clandestine radio, furtive pamphlet and whispered word of mouth, they warned the peasants to boycott the polls on pain of death. To make sure that their message was understood, during election week Viet Cong terrorists killed 190 civilians, wounded 426 and kidnaped another...