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...father of two college students who read TIME, I would like to say that you have finally reached the bottom in the pail of filth. The person who chose this subject must get his kicks reading the Marquis de Sade...
...Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, by Peter Weiss, is a hypodermic needle plunged directly into the playgoer's emotional bloodstream. It hypnotizes the eye and bruises the ear. It shreds the nerves; it vivisects the psyche-and it may scare the living daylights out of more than a few playgoers...
...explains, it is a play within a play-a dramatization of the dagger slaying of the French revolutionary leader who was killed in his bath by Charlotte Corday. (Actually, the enlightened keeper of the Charenton asylum did believe in the therapeutic value of having inmates act out plays, and Sade, who was incarcerated there for a time, contributed some scripts...
...play within the play. An asthenic-looking fop, playing an innocent love scene with Charlotte Corday, promptly tries to rape her. In dumb show, a single tipsy file of the insane marches to the guillotine, and their heads drop in deadly percussive succession. Stripped to the waist and kneeling, Sade is lashed by Corday with a spastic whipping motion of her hair that raises imaginative welts of erotic cruelty...
Bennett's personal eccentricities, his supporters charge, also influenced the department's decision. The 35-year-old professor wears boots and overalls, drives a motorcycle, and has assigned the Marquis de Sade to his social philosophy classes...