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...suppose Schwartz means seriously the sketch that followed. It concerned an abortive reading of Hamlet, directed by Isabel's alcholic lover, Alex, who is the brother of Isabel's former lover--who died of an overdose of heroin. Alex reads Claudius, Isabel Gertrude. Hamlet is appropriately performed by Absolom, an idiot-child orphan the other two have inexplicably accumulated some five minutes before the scene opens...
...women to be so destructive? Most of them, said Social Worker Barish, fitted a neurotic pattern. They were "suffering, protective and interfering." Usually their husbands had left them, and so great was their need for their sons' love that they managed to ignore the boys' addiction to heroin. "The mother," explained Clergyman Brown, "has a vested interest in perpetuating the addiction, as it gratifies her need for a dependent...
...made him fatuous. He was a skinflint who haggled over cab fares, a spendthrift who swaggered in custom suits. He was a political idiot who backed the Nazis and the Communists at the same time. Furtive and suspicious, he suffered psychotic episodes and occasionally flirted with suicide. He tried heroin and hashish. For years, he once confessed, he was a compulsive masturbator. He wrote love letters in baby talk, named his women like horses (Babu Mio, My Golden Girl), and guzzled bromide by the bottle. He was a fiercely vocal champion of artistic integrity who forced publishers to print...
...having been dropped for other reasons: "like all of us he was under tremendous pressure. He was facing 20 years in jail and a $20,000 fine for having visited Cuba. Early this year, we had discovered that he had succumbed to these pressures. To escape, he began using heroin, embezzling funds form the movement to pay for his need; indeed, he finally sold out to the police, to the 'destroy-PL' campaign. To feed his illness, to escape form the reality he had opposed, he turned against his friends and against his own ideas...
...Danger: Habituation. How perilous is pot? Medical authorities agree that it is not biochemically addictive, that it does not induce the physiological craving or withdrawal symptoms of such drugs as heroin or cocaine. It affects the user's judgment, and if used daily, will dull a student's initiative and drive, but on the whole, "marijuana is probably less dangerous than alcohol," insists Rand Corp.'s drug expert William McGlothlin. "The dangers have been grossly overrated and the legal penalties are far too severe...