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...modern world shrinks more and more often into the confines of a great institution. Writers have spun whole novels out of a single metaphor: a sanatorium (Mann), a concentration camp (E. E. Cummings), a university (Barth). First Novelist Peter Israel has gone a step further. His setting is a windowless labyrinth of long corridors and locked doors; its rules and workings resemble the capriciousness of Kafka's world. Whether it is an asylum or a prison, Israel never makes clear. More than anything else, it seems to be the author's vision of the enslaved human consciousness...
...that of brainwashing. "What we try to do," says New York Berlitz Director Emanuel Huarte, "is to break students down mentally until they lose the ability to resist and are receptive to fresh ideas." The breakdown begins to the clang of an 8:15 a.m. bell in a windowless classroom, where the student faces one of his four alternating instructors. Student and teacher speak nothing but the foreign language during eleven 40-minute periods, relieved only by five-minute English breaks. All day long, the instructor points to objects and pictures, pantomimes actions, pronounces words, asks simple questions. The student...
...months he was locked in a windowless cell on the Dallas County Jail's Corridor 6-M. A "suicide watch" jailer looked in on him round the clock; a single naked light bulb glared endlessly over his cot. He could not tell night from day. He devoured all the newspapers he could get, eagerly sifting every line of print to find his name. He did crossword puzzles and browsed through dozens of books (Perry Mason mysteries, sexy novels, the Warren Report, an abstruse volume of erotica titled Virginity-Pre-Nuptial Rites and Rituals). He played gin rummy indefatigably with...
McNamara's appeal did not seem to move either side at the time. Said Jennings: "I don't buy the argument at all." But the negotiators then moved to a windowless room in the basement of the Labor Department building where, under the anxious eye of Administration mediators, they finally hammered out their agreement. For months, labor-management analysts had been saying that the G.E. contract would set the pattern for more than 30 major industries over the next year. When last week's settlement was reached, it was difficult to see how it could...
...chaos. In a belated effort to keep an earlier promise that at least 20% of the students would be white, school officials last summer sent 10,000 leaflets into Queens and The Bronx, extolling the $5,000,000 school's virtues and inviting white students to enroll. Windowless, air-conditioned and soundproofed, the building would create an ideal learning environment. It would have one teacher for every 24 students, extra teachers for tutorial work, offer independent study, foreign languages and musical-instrument instruction. Not a single white family signed up to send kids to Harlem...