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...this film the "Negro Problem" leaps out of the abstract and becomes the problems of knowing what's worth trying for, and when you've lost--your problem and my problem intensified and made cruelly explicit. Duff Anderson can't avoid putting himself to the test because he is always on the line, and he is kept there by the losers...
...white men Duff faces as an unskilled worker in the South subsist, vampire-like, on his dignity. They leave his buddies on the railroad gang little choice but to act our a dirty joke for them down in Shanty-own. They leave his father to fight a bottle in a hotel room, under the care of a younger woman whose love only reinforces his self-contempt...
...this comes across as real only because Duff Anderson (played by Ivan Dixon) is real. He finds the courage to marry a girl (Abbey Lincoln) who will never be indifferent to him, who asks him to accept forgiveness and innocent trust...
...that he might get killed, is a comic creation that has already become something of a classic. In typical black-humor fashion, Yossarinan's real adversary is nothing less than the whole mad, mucked-up system, the jujitsu with which the bombardier repeatedly sets the system on its duff is achingly familiar to any veteran. Everybody is out of step but Yossarian-and Heller has the power to make that all too believable, despite the book's unbuttoned artlessness. The danger is that Heller could be a one-book writer who hit it funny and lucky...
...hanged for 200 different offenses, most of them trivial, 20 or more persons were dispatched at once, and vast festive crowds turned out for the "hanging days" at Tyburn. In recent years, a steady campaign against the death penalty has been fought by lawyers and authors, including Barrister Charles Duff, who dedicated his devastating, sardonic Handbook on Hanging to "The Hangmen of England and Similar Constitutional Bulwarks Everywhere...