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WASHINGTON, D. C.-Congressmen arriving for the noon rollcall yesterday at the Capitol must have wondered whether they were being button-holed by lobbying antiwar veterans or besieged by a rag-tailed army of madmen...
Cleaver's man in New York, Zayd Malik Shakur, promptly charged that Newton and his associate David Hilliard were behind the murder. "We have documented evidence," he said, "that these two madmen gave the orders to have Brother Robert Webb killed." Police have their doubts, but they suspect that the intraparty dispute is the key to the killing. They think the killers came from a dissident Panther group in Queens that remains loyal to Newton at a time when many of the New York Panthers are part of the Cleaver following. They also believe that Webb's death...
...ironic that the word "home" has another meaning; a gray institution where we store the old, the sick, and the insane, waiting for them to die. We call some of these homes "asylums," and the people inside them "madmen." When occasionally, as in Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade, we are forced to enter an asylum, we see lunatics prancing, laughing, and shrieking. Frightened, we can still leave reassured, thinking, "So that's what a madman is like. Well, no one I know is quite like that. Thank...
David Storey's Home is an asylum, and his characters are madmen. But his home is far closer to ours, and its inhabitants hardly seem madder than the people around us. When Harry, played by John Gielgud, walks onto an almost bare stage, neatly folds his gloves and newspaper onto a table, and lowers himself into a frame chair, he could be anywhere. At a garden party, or perhaps a seaside resort. And Jack (Ralph Richardson), moving painfully to the table, smiling slightly, asking if he may sit down-is that what a lunatic looks like? Not until Jack asks...
...Jack and Harry mad? The word has little meaning here. If we call them lunatics, they will only point to Alfred, who lifts and lowers furniture and speaks in monosyllables. If they are madmen, what is he? Lonely, sad, aimless, they are not so very different from us. Their world is an enlarged corner of our own. While most of us don't live in the home of Jack and Harry, ours is not the home of happy proverbs either. Which is why, though we may not be old men or madmen, we are nevertheless affected deeply by this play...