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...fast-decaying 20th century, one art form has flourished like a carrion crow. It is witness literature, the testimony of men and women who have endured unspeakable torment and degradation, and emerged to tell an unbelieving world, "This is the way it was. I know. I was there...
...Your cover story on James Taylor [March 1] was a delight. The Taylors personify the sort of torment and genesis of the young today. I am pleased that they are sharing their search with...
...happened to Utopia? Those once myriad visions of ideal societies have all but disappeared, or have been transmogrified into the demonic dreams of science-fiction. Gone are the blessed isles, the jungle retreats, the mountain fastnesses, the subterranean wonderlands that promised a perfect life free of toil and torment. The urge to envision an earthly paradise seems to have spent itself...
CALIFORNIA. Though it leads all states in systematic penology, California has the nation's highest crime rate. Critics also claim that the system is characterized by a kind of penal paternalism that becomes psychological torment. In a much touted reform, California judges give indeterminate sentences; corrections officials then determine each offender's fate according to his presumably well-tested behavior. Thus 66% of all convicted offenders get probation, 6% work in 20-man forestry crews, and only 13.5% of felons go to prison. Despite rising crime, California's prison population (26,500) has actually dropped...
...span of suffering and the sense of damnation varies. For some, the searing pain, the numbing descent into nothingness lasts minutes or hours or days; for others, weeks, months and years. It is Samuel Beckett's special vision to see man's entire life as a torment, a flaying of the heart, a hell without...