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...take the Yale Rep with him. To Yale's surprise, he more or less did; though another company now performs in Yale's name, Brustein's rechristened American Repertory Theater is in its fourth season at Harvard. This spring the university will consider whether to commit its patronage past 1984 and whether to endorse Bru stein's plan for conservatory training in drama. Brustein says he cannot continue without increased funds from Harvard...
...Giovanni, a young man who is suspected of having convinced a former mistress to jump out of a window, the legal paraphernalia inevitably gives way to philosophical probing. "Why was I born?". "What is the meaning of life?" Obsessed with such questions, Mauro begins to ponder convincing Marta to commit suicide. The acquaintance with the young man finishes off Mauro's already rickety defenses against the incursions of madness: If life makes no sense in itself, what can distinctions of sanity or public virtue matter...
...much of the give and take between characters and the faulty human personalities which normally pull a person into a good film. Orwell, writing about Gandhi after he was murdered, noted. "The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human...
...ordinary standards demented enough to make a mess of any theory of deterrence. Says New York University Law Professor Anthony Amsterdam: "People who ask themselves those questions-'Am I scared of the death penalty? Would I not be deterred?'-and think rationally, do not commit murder for many, many reasons other than the death penalty...
Former Prosecutor Bernard Carey, until 1980 state's attorney for Cook County, favors capital punishment, sparingly used. Yet he says, "I don't think it's much of a deterrent because the kinds of people who commit these crimes aren't going to be deterred by the electric chair." Some might be encouraged. "For every person for whom the death penalty is a deterrent," says Stanford Psychiatry Professor Donald Lunde, "there's at least one for whom it is an incentive." Such murderers, says Amsterdam, "are attracted by the Jimmy Cagney image of 'live...