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Last week they got the rest of the story: Syria's Gazelle Boy had been committed to a lunatic asylum, was there lapping water from a spring and placidly grazing on the lawn. With the story went a picture of the boy (see cut). He was a lean, trim youngster, apparently used to wearing clothes (his arms were tanned, his body fairly white), obviously in need of a haircut and a bath-and perhaps a new pressagent...
...ASYLUM PIECE (312 pp.)-Anna Kavan -Doubleday...
This description by a Chinese philosopher of the 3rd Century B.C. serves as a prelude to one of the 34 grim studies in contemporary psychosis (that make up Anna Kavan's Asylum Piece. Despite lushness of metaphor and over-ornamentation of style, it is skillful fiction by a 30-year-old Englishwoman who has spent several years working among the insane...
...blunt report in the novel-form of Mary Jane Ward's The Snake Pit (TIME, May 6), Asylum Piece is a highly sensitive, subtle attempt to see the world through the eyes of a score of demented people, true not to life but to the living death of insanity...
...Congressional Medal of Honor, is boomed for the State Senate by his G.I. buddies, gives the "Oak Falls" machine its first lambasting in 20 years. After one slapdown in the Senate he finds his political legs, starts chasing political rats. First rat: the grafting director of a state insane asylum. Next on the fighting Senator's agenda: underpayment of teachers, black-market babies, maladministration of prisons...