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...journey of atonement will be another blow to the Nationalists. The Japanese Premier's six-day visit will end on the eve of Oct. 1, making the summit a kind of obeisance to Mao Tse-tung's Communists, who use that date as the anniversary of the triumphant establishment of their regime in Peking in 1949. When a ranking Japanese emissary arrived in Taipei early last week to plead for "understanding" of the summit, Nationalist student demonstrators greeted him with angry placards crying TANAKA GO TO HELL...
Pale Fire was Vladimir Nabokov's triumphant literary joke about the attempts of a mad pedant to write about the life and work of a poet whom he barely knew and whose qualities eluded him completely. The book seemed to be the very last laugh at the extremes of the New Criticism-destructive works of literary detection, prolix biographies, and any number of other sins against common sense and the simple enjoyment...
...believes, in which Western civilization subscribed to the bourgeois standards - work hard, seek virtue - and it naturally condemned the psychopath as a madman (the Marquis de Sade) or an outlaw (Billy the Kid). But throughout most of this century, he argues, the psychopaths have been gaining - first tolerated, now triumphant as dictators of the contemporary style of life...
...Kogane-cho (Gold Town). Today, says Dr. Yoshio Ishikawa of the Sengayaen mental hospital, heroin addiction "has become a subject without a living example for study, like smallpox," and medical students may finish their entire education without seeing an actual addict. Police and narcotics agents face the same triumphant scarcity...
Logic is lampooned, insanity triumphant in Orton's language, which is preserved here in reasonable facsimile. Miss Remick, dolled up to look like a prize in a shooting gallery, is calculating and amusing. Attenborough and O'Shea are nothing short of hilarious. With puffy face and popping raisin eyes, Attenborough looks like a hot cross bun impaled on a rag mop as he continually cross-examines the befuddled O'Shea. During an interval in the questioning, Attenborough boasts that it was he who solved the notorious riddle of "the limbless girl killer." "Who'd want...