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...never see the kidnap and killing of "little Pauly Koestler" in Compulsion, but this only adds to the moral horror. It is the kind of horror that comes from putting yourself in the place of a student who has treated life too academically, has experimented with a detachment that society suddenly finds repulsive...
Darkness at Noon has faded as a piece of realism because Koestler's portrait of the Neantherthal second-generation Communist has been grossly exaggerated and laughed out of existence. Clumping about his metallic office in his black boots, blowing cigar smoke in the face of his victims, cheaply adjusting theory to exigency and blindly following his vision of the party line-- he is the subject of a thousand Western caricatures. With Sputniks today whizzing about the head of Apollo, it's difficult to accept the proposition that the Soviet Union is administered by men who believe the charm...
...Darkness at Noon deals with issues that Bulganin must find preciously close these days. One can only guess how the intricacies of party theory confronted such malevolent characters as Beria and Malenkov. Certainly Koestler's 1938 psychological insights into the Communist-mind-at-work have modern and equally terrifying variants, which you not idly ponder as you leave Lowell House...
Producer Steven A. Bell '60 announced the cast for the Lowell House production of Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon yesterday. The leads will be played by Ronald H. Coralian '59, Travis B. Linn '61, David R. Pursley '60, Harvey L. White '59, all Lowell House members, and Sharon C. Connolley...
...insure further the completely single-House character of the production, Master Elliott Perkins '23 will use funds provided by the Ford Foundation to purchase a stage and extra lighting. Perkins expected a low budget for the production, an adaptation of Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon...