Word: martial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...butcher was accused of bringing cattle into the city without a permit, his lawyer asked the court: "Is there, legally speaking, such a place as Karachi?" The government, red-faced, asked a postponement. A navy lieutenant, charged with drunkenness, boldly asked his accusers"! "On whose authority is this court-martial held? Is there, legally speaking, a commander in chief?" The court-martial was promptly adjourned...
...Tonight earned Producer Paul Gregory his usual fine reviews and should prove-like Gregory's Don Juan in Hell and The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial-another big Broadway winner. There will be dissenters, however. Sceneryless and recital-like, 3 for Tonight yet aims at effects as soberly startling as a lady pallbearer. It is also a kind of variety show that not too wisely shrugs at variety: beyond Master of Ceremonies Hiram Sherman, there are only the dance team...
...first. But no audience ever entered more wholeheartedly into the spirit of a production. For the spectators were mental patients, and they were watching fellow patients enact a play about something they all felt intimately -the appearance of mental illness under unbearable strain. The play: The Caine Mutiny Court Martial...
...therapeutic technique of psychodrama (TIME, Jan. 24), patients act out their own experiences or roles related to them; in presenting Herman Wouk's Court Martial, the patients did the opposite: they had to adapt themselves, like any actors, to prefabricated roles. Remarkable was the fact that they chose the play themselves, without prompting from the hospital's recreation staff, and assigned most of the parts...
There were two parts in the Court Martial that no mental patient would play: those of Queeg himself and the judge advocate. They refused to play Queeg, explains Dr. Miller, because they feared that enacting a make-believe breakdown might cause a real breakdown: "They don't want to be identified with mental illness. They want to be normal." Neither would the patients tolerate a familiar, forbidding father-figure (such as Psychiatrist Miller himself) in the part of Queeg. Their choice fell on a "good father-figure": Chester Dowse, amiable chief of the hospital's special services department...