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...October 2005, Kaczynski offered to donate two books to the library of Northwesten University, the target of Kaczynski??s first two bombs. A campus policeman and graduate student suffered minor injuries when they opened packages containing explosive materials in the late 1970s...
...make you feel better for not being able to remember exactly what happened last weekend, don’t worry, you won’t be the worst graduate we’ve had. Why? Because Harvard has also had the good fortune to educate Ted Kaczynski??a.k.a, the Unabomber. And next to that, bombing your midterms is nothing...
Though the premise is sensational, Chase treats Kaczynski??s psyche and the college’s social and educational environment with great consideration. Kaczynski was not the marginalized loner or the intellectual lunatic as portrayed by the popular media during his 1998 trial, but rather a sensitive, multi-talented man with a highly gifted mind...
...according to Chase, Kaczynski??s violent tendencies really emerged when he was subjected to severe psychological stress by Henry A. Murray, then a professor in Harvard’s Department of Social Relations. Murray’s experiments, called the “Multiform Assessments of Personality Development Among Gifted College Men” subjected undergraduates to military style interrogation, replete with harsh blinding lights and the psychological strong-arm tactics. Human subjects including Kaczynski were mentally battered as Murray tested the limits of “human character.” Soon Kaczynski “clearly...
Kaczynski came to Harvard as a shy working-class 16-year-old boy from a Chicago suburb. What we most directly portray in the play is Kaczynski??s participation in the Murray experiment, a three-year personality experiment in which he was a paid subject. After writing extensive autobiographies and voluminous ruminations on many topics, subjects in their third year were interrogated, their ideas and beliefs challenged in (by most accounts) combative and hostile sessions called “dyad sessions.” Subjects then watched footage of their responses under pressure, and were asked to comment...
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