Word: craned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Charlotte Crane is a senior History concentrator at Radcliffe and a dedicated member of the Radcliffe varsity crew team. Last year's co-captain, she rows on the eight-place shell which is Radcliffe's hope in the upcoming Head of the Charles race on October...
CHARLOTTE CRANE...
...hard to give him the last measure of commitment-and even love-that a passionate reader gives to a very few writers: (let's say) Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Joyce, Twain, Melville, Yeats, Crane and yesbygod Hemingway. Is it Updike's faint tinge of smugness? Is he too much a cherisher of clever conceits? The reasons seem murkier the more they are examined, but they refuse to be examined away. What stirs these grumbles this time is the author's new collection of short stories. The book also stirs, of course, all of the old admiration: Lord, how well...
Like many former patients, when he met old friends Crane would feel self-conscious about having been hospitalized for mental illness. According to Low's specific instructions, Crane "practiced 'averageness' by commanding my muscles to make me walk up to my friend, then shake hands, smile, and chat for a while. I proved to myself that I could look at my past mental illness in the same way I would look at pneumonia or any other physical illness...
Recovery, Inc. does not try to diagnose emotional disturbances, says Crane. It cannot handle acute psychotic episodes. It does not compete with professionals: many of its members go concurrently to psychiatrists or other therapists. About half of its clientele are suffering from the residua of severe, hospitalized illness; the other half are neurotics with chronic problems that make it difficult for them to cope with the frustrations of everyday living...