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...Stalas Luft, June '44-April '45), I would like to suggest a more realistic code to be followed by P.W.s i) Give to all men (primarily officers) who have knowledge of war plans a suicide pill to be taken when such individuals deem it necessary. 2) Allow all P.W.s the privilege of talking as they see fit, writing as many confessions as the enemy wishes. 3) Allow the P.W. to do anything the enemy requires except take action which is in any way harmful to fellow prisoners. Any P.W. found guilty of this crime to be punished...
...made in his text for the TV version managed to make the play even worse. O'Neill's final note stresses man's indomitable hope in the face of hopelessness. The TV version concluded with a happy ending, sugar-coating O'Neill's bitter pill...
Lester gazed at the big white moon with narrow red eyes. Red because Lester was being a diligent student the night before exams. His mind was crammed with declensions and conjugations and his box of No-Doz was filled with encouragement. The pill-and-pray technique worked well in days gone by, when Lester would study till breakfast, nap till test time, then rise to snear at the men who said, "Gentlemen, this examination will...
...brain is a sheer pulp of newspaper headlines, self-help manuals and radio commercials ("Hi, gang! Your friend Lazarus the Laughing Leper brings you radio's newest kiddies' program, The Lives of the Saints, sponsored by Necrostyle ... Don't forget, kids, Necrostyle, the wafer-shaped sleeping pill...
...only to wind up in hospitals, where electric shock made her outwardly calmer but with no normal ebb and flow of emotional responses. After reserpine, and with no more help from the psychiatrists than she had always had, the woman went home on a maintenance dose of one reserpine pill a day. Her husband had only one complaint: she had become so demanding in her new-found love for him he wondered whether the doctors could make her pills a bit smaller...