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...declared, "and which one day might strike my mother or my family. I believe in justice but I will defend my mother before justice." The famous phrase caused Camus to be mocked for 20 years by leftist intellectuals who uncritically backed the Algerian revolutionaries. He broke with his friend Jean-Paul Sartre when the philosopher tried to suppress news of Stalin's gulag...
...morphine habit. Far worse, after she had been charged with theft, Sister Godfrida placidly confessed to killing three old people with overdoses of insulin because they had been "too difficult at night." But she did it "sweetly," she insisted, and none of the three had suffered. Admitted Dr. Jean-Paul De Corte, a member of the hospital's governing board: "It could just as well be 30 people as three...
...Loeb production of Marat/Sade uses the same technique. From the moment the house opens, the actors are on stage, ad-libbing their roles as mental patients. Marat/Sade is perhaps the ultimate play-within-a-play, with the inmates of an insane asylum outside Paris portraying the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, a left-wing journalist-leader of the French Revolution, under the direction of fellow-inmate Marquis de Sade. The audience finds itself assuming two roles: on the one hand, we are the French intellectuals of 1808 who are watching the inmates, and on the other, we are ourselves, watching...
...Marquis de Sade was convinced that the French Revolution was a mistake. Or at least that seems to be the explanation behind that notorious writer's decision to stage a mock murder of one of the revolution's leaders in 'The persecution and assasination of Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the inmates of the Marquis de Sade' which (if you can make it past the title) you should go to see this weekend at the Loeb Mainstage. According to director Kerry Konrad '78, this play within a play, in which neither the passion of the revolution, of the marquis...
...within a pluralistic society. Stung by the protests, Bologna party leaders suspected Italy's secret service, the CIA or other foreign intelligence outfits of manipulating extremists in order to discredit the Communists. Party leaders are especially bitter about a Parisian manifesto signed by 26 leftist intellectuals, including Writer Jean-Paul Sartre, accusing the Italian party of brutally putting down the students in Bologna...