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...Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel: "An hour of original music in a lunatic asylum." On Edvard Grieg: his music gave "the charming and bizarre sensation of eating a pink bon-bon stuffed with snow." On Richard Wagner: "His impunity as a despot almost excused his imperturbable vanity." Debussy admitted that Wagner had his points: the music of Parsifal is "incomparable and bewildering, splendid and strong...
...years of reporting for the United Press in Vienna, Robert Henry Best developed an obsessive hatred of Jews, the New Deal and Communism. He lived with an aging, dope-addicted "countess"; after she died in a lunatic asylum, he married a young German governess...
Toward the end, before he killed himself, Van Gogh considered his painting a kind of therapy. Writing from an insane asylum to his brother Theo, he said: "I am struggling with all my energy to master my work . . . if I win that will be the best lightning conductor for my illness." That illness was possibly epilepsy, but it has also been defined as manic depression. Today, it might have been given electric shock treatment. As gallerygoers could see, Van Gogh's self-prescribed therapy was also a "shock treatment...
Schizophrenia (split personality) is the most mysterious, and perhaps the commonest, of mental disorders. It is hard to diagnose, hard to treat, and it accounts for at least 35% of U.S. insane-asylum inmates...
...Lait's own bonus-winning lead on a story about Murderer Harry Thaw's escape from a New York insane asylum, and his cross-country flight in the summer sun: "Harry Thaw arrived in Chicago last night, brown...