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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the blocking or pace of the show. As in most junior high productions, whenever someone chances to display a little comic flair or intelligence--even unrefined--the effect is so exhilarating that it goes beyond moments of style in slick, even productions, and you might think that the person in question will do good things someday--in a college production, perhaps...
...Government, he still carried clout as Jimmy Carter's good Georgia buddy. "I don't care about the damn passport," Lance told a friend in Atlanta. "But what a lousy way to handle it. They didn't even have the guts to tell me in person." He had, in fact, merely been informed by a bureaucratic letter that his passport had been "audited" and must be returned to the White House...
...Shaddy, who confessed to the murders, manage to escape punishment? After his first trial ended in a hung jury (deadlocked 10 to 2 for conviction), he was acquitted at his second trial on the grounds of insanity. Under Kansas law, a person acquitted of murder on psychiatric grounds is sent to the state security hospital at Larned until he has been pronounced cured. When hospital officials proposed to free Shaddy last June, a hearing was held; and a psychiatrist, psychologist and social worker testified that Shaddy was cured of any insanity and was not dangerous to anyone. Remarked Clinical Director...
Moro's letter argued that "the doctrine according to which advantage must not accrue to kidnaping does not apply to political circumstances where a sure and incalculable damage is done not only to the person but to the state itself." It pointed out that all other countries, except Israel and West Germany, had saved kidnap victims "in a positive way." It referred to past political exchanges between the Soviet Union and Chile, "many exchanges of spies," and the expulsion of dissidents from the Soviet Union...
Thomas Szasz will speak April 11 at Ford Hall in Boston on "The Myth of Mental Illness." If you're feeling like you're the only sane person in an absurd world, this could be therapeutic...