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David and Lisa. Love is a light to the sick as well as the sane, and in this painful and beautiful film it lights the life of two psychotic children and gives them hope that somehow they may be healed...
...scene is, by comparison, that of a namby-pamby nitwit. To the great credit of Mr. Arunah Brady be it said that he was able to convey much of its pity and terror. This scene has everything. She is not mad; on the contrary, she is the one person sane. Seeress, she can see the crimes already wreaked under that roof, and foresee the two about to follow, the murder of Agamemnon and of herself. Her speeches begin with little more than unintelligible bird-like cries of mantic possession, but gradually clarify to explicit prophecy, yet all opaque...
...overriding reason for having American reporters in Havana is that during the last Cuba crisis they provided the only sane assessment of Castro's popularity and strength to reach the United States. Today, when senate "experts" on Cuba are asking Americans to believe that all Cubans would welcome a U.S. army of liberation, a third voice in the Cuba debate is more important than ever. It is necessary to know what political and emotional climate actually exists in Cuba before we decide what we propose to do about...
...Schlesinger notes, however, there is an overall theme: much of contemporary left-wing dissent does find its origins in the fear that America and the entire world is not confronting "the implications of nuclear war." Men like Hughes, Riesman, and Roger Hagan, periodicals like The Nation, organizations like SANE and the Women's Strike for Peace, are all pre-eminently concerned with awakening a slumbering public to the evils of the Cold War and the Arms Race, and mobilizing them against the unseen, unnamed enemy...
...control of this jabberwock of a book, but since Catch-22 is a wild war satire, it does not much matter that the book tramples what scenery it does not chew. The novel's hero is Yossarian, an Air Force captain whose maladjustment is that he is sane. He is stationed in Italy and has flown 40 or 50 missions, and he tries to explain to a friend what troubles him about this: "They're trying to kill me." No one is trying to kill you, the friend says. "Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian asks...