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...Heroes. The Theatre Guild's President Lawrence Langner thinks that scripts cater to parochial Broadway tastes, insists that the rest of the nation is not so fond of rape, reefers and sodomy. His views won front-page attention in a recent issue of Variety under the banner: FOLKS DON'T DIG THAT FREUD. And Broadway Critic John Chapman has been offering a similar warning: the theater is in atrophy, he suggests, because it has lost faith in the spirit...
...Glass Menagerie is both "positive and healthy," he says, "eulogizes the heroic qualities of human nature in adversity." Admitting the "negative charge" in Tennessee's other plays-he calls Cat on a Hot Tin Roof "a symphony of evil"-Dakin nonetheless finds an implied positive in each. Rape of a sister-in-law (A Streetcar Named Desire), homosexuality (Cat, etc.), cannibalism (Suddenly, Last Summer), garden-variety adultery (Orpheus Descending) and castration (Sweet Bird of Youth} may not be radiant with uplift, but "there can be no valid moral objection to the exposure of this sort...
...week Teacher Hanners held "guidance" sessions, and the boys freely brought him their problems, from abstruse moral ones to a shattered pair of glasses. Jaded prison officials, who had seen hardened criminals come and harder criminals go, marveled at the results. A 20-year-old named Robert, jailed for rape, sat sullenly through his first week in Hanners' class. Inexplicably, he perked up the second week, began drawing cartoons with facility and underwent a drastic change of personality. An incredulous parole officer told Hanners: "I don't see how you did it, but you've made...
...expected, there were suburban wails. Grumbled Westchester County Supervisor Arnold D. Roseman: "It's the rape of Westchester." Arthur T. Roth, chairman of the Franklin National Bank of Long Island and a bitter opponent of the bill, pointedly asked Governor Rockefeller whether "an eleventh-hour emergency plea issued on a bill that favors Chase Manhattan isn't a conflict of interest." Replied Rockefeller: he had sold his 18,000 Chase Manhattan shares last January...
There are six capital crimes under federal law (murder, rape, bank robbery, kidnaping, treason, espionage) and some 30 under state laws (e.g., aiding a suicide in Arkansas or burning a railway bridge in Georgia), but in practice the death penalty is seldom carried out in the U.S. for offenses other than 1) murder and 2)rape committed by a Negro in the South. Of the 97 men executed in the U.S., in 1958-59 under state laws, 81 were convicted of murder, 15 of rape (14 Negroes, one white, all in Southern states), and one of armed robbery (a Negro...