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...West Point, made him a particular embarrassment to Soviet authorities. They cashiered him from the army, and in 1964 confined him in a lunatic asylum for 14 months. Last May, he was arrested in Tashkent and, without trial, was sent for an indefinite period to another asylum as a "paranoid." Copies of Grigorenko's own notes on his treatment are now circulating from hand to hand in Moscow. Following are excerpts that describe his experience in the cellar of the KGB headquarters in Tashkent...
...question whether they are really pathological or simply adaptive. If judged by the majority of the prevailing culture, they could be called pathological. But from the black person's standpoint, they have been patterns he has had to use to make it." It is scarcely paranoid, for instance, for the black to distrust and fear the white society. Says Dr. William Malamud Jr., a white psychiatrist in Boston: "What's labeled as pathology is very often psychic health in blacks. You can say: 'How else would you expect them...
Equally original are Prince's stylized staging, the Michael Bennett choreography (including a dance solo paying respects to sexual intercourse), and Boris Aaronson's platformed-skyscraper set, which allows Prince to create groupings in which paranoid characters can be vocally attacked from above...
...important that we respect the man enough to know that, in the city scenes, he offers more than the simple-minded judgments of Medium Cool and the irritating awe of Demy's The Model Shop. And on the road, we're not dealing with Easy Rider's paranoid tourist mentality...
...boys. One is Dobbs (Pat Hingle), an American Mr. Chips, a cuddly Teddy bear of a man who sees his boys as substitutes for the sons he never had. His antithesis is Malley (Fritz Weaver), a martinet of Greek and Latin, a forbidding aristocrat of learning waging a slightly paranoid struggle for excellence in an age of slipshod egalitarianism. With tongues as foils, this pair fences throughout the play, and the acting level is simply sustained perfection. The third teacher, Reese (Ken Howard), is a puzzled innocent, a gym teacher earnestly trying to isolate the virus of evil that seems...