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...Police Asylum. Even worse than the camps are the prison psychiatric institutions. Dissenters are regularly dispatched to these asylums without trial, for indefinite periods and with no possibility of appeal. A typical case is that of Leonid Plyushch, a cyberneticist whose aspirations for Ukranian cultural freedom led to charges of "creeping schizophrenia." He has been given massive doses of depressant drugs. After two years in one of the U.S.S.R.'s seven police-run lunatic asylums, the noted scientist has been driven to a state of mental and physical collapse...
...prevailing cultural mood of the '60s. But unlike so many popular artistic and intellectual productions of that era, the book may have the capacity to outlive its historical moment. In telling the story of Randle McMurphy and the brief, abortive rebellion which he organized in an insane asylum, Kesey demonstrated a tough-minded understanding of the subtleties of revolutionaries and revolutions...
...generals took up positions outside the presidential palace. As helicopters and MIGs made mock strafing runs over the palace, the majors negotiated a deal: surrender of power in exchange for safe-conduct passage for themselves and their families to Thailand. Among those who promptly applied for political asylum in the U.S. and Pakistan was Lieut. Colonel Sayed Farook Rahman, instigator of the August coup...
Donna Francesca (Lucia Bose), the wife of the hospital director; Bianca (Marthe Keller), a nurse; and Carla (Barbara Bouchet), who is married to a member of Bonaccorsisi's staff. Other, lesser men may thirst for a glimpse of the world out side, but the asylum is sufficient for the doctor, who spends his time between rounds and beddings in the laboratory trying to isolate "the germ of schizophrenia." It is clear he has been inside the walls too long...
Down the Ancient Stairs could have used more crises. The movie tips its hand instantly. Time (1930) and place (a mad house in Italy) add up to two inevitable points: there is no escaping insanity, and Fascism outside the walls is a greater madness than anything the asylum contains. After The Conformist, after...