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Basically, the film takes an absurdly simplistic caricature of traditional theories of mental illness--that anyone deviating from the bland norm should be locked up and lobotomized--and reverses it, adding no subtleties in the process. The result is a prescription that "order" is wrong and that "sub-normal twits and gibbering hunks of animality" should inherit the earth. Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) arrives at a relatively quiet ward in a mental institution, where three-quarters of the patients are "voluntaries," and he proceeds to wreak havoc. The only crazy thing about him, he claims, is that all he wants...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Off the Bus, Off the Wall | 1/14/1976 | See Source »

Selective Grants. Since 1959 Moscow has pumped $788 million in aid into sub-Saharan Africa. Compared with other donors, the Russians have not been generous; in the same period, the West has given Black Africa $2.5 billion, China has given $1.8 billion, and the World Bank has provided $1 billion. But the Soviets have been highly selective in their grants to ensure maximum impact. Somalia, for example, has received only $60 million from Moscow in the past year, but it came at a crucial moment. When drought and famine hit the country in late 1974, the Soviets stepped in quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Moscow's Risky Bid for Influence | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

...Harvard sub-varsity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coming & Going | 12/9/1975 | See Source »

...Harvard sub-varsity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coming & Going | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

...Harvard sub-varsity at CCNY...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coming & Going | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

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