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Rhinoceritis, implies lonesco, is the most communicable disease of the 20th century: under the pressures of mass-think, man loses his individuality and is driven to joining the bestial herd. Many characters protest the change, but relentlessly their skins thicken and wrinkle, their voices become grunts, and great ski-jump tusks appear on their faces. "We must resist rhinocerization at any cost," cry the seemingly unafflicted, but already they start, rhino-like, to munch odd bits of paper, ivy leaves, potted plants...
...death trains piled up at the Auschwitz sidings and Hoess's gassing and cremation schedules went hours awry, he pleaded with Himmler for more guards and materials. Himmler suggested using more dogs to herd the prisoners, but otherwise told Hoess that he would have to make do with what he had. Somehow, Hoess did-and he is as methodically informative as a suburbanite fighting crab grass as he discusses the relative merits of poison gasses and the superiority of threeretort crematory ovens to four-retort ovens. Hoess remembers with almost nostalgic pride a date of peak efficiency when...
Flesh & the Spirit. Between carcassing on the cots and caucusing in the corridors, the civil rights coalition ended up the first week's filibuster with baggy eyes and saggy spirits. Purred rumpled Ev Dirksen: "The flesh rides herd on the spirit. Soon I must lie down and let Morpheus embrace...
...Dwight Eisenhower begins his last year in the White House, he admits to a sustaining vision of life at another home: his 192-acre Gettysburg farm, with its promise of relaxed living, carefree hours padding about the yards and fields, and overseeing his herd of black Aberdeen Angus cattle...
Understandably enough, Harvard wishes to hold itself high above the herd--to appear in print only at birth, death, and marriage, as it were--but, like the lady said, times have changed. Perhaps Harvard students need to enjoy the sensation of the intellectually competitive experience that "College Bowl affords, in order truly to comprehend the world in which they perforce will move. It is all very well for young people to flirt with individuality and rugged independence, but when they get out of college they will have to learn that in this world we must conform--if the other boys...