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...ROOTS and symptoms of madness in the twentieth century have been pursued by psychologists, physicians, sociologists and philosophers. But until about fifteen years ago, madness was usually explained either as the result of some chemical imbalance, or "from the inside," a sacrifice of the ego to evade the role-playing of daily life...
...About fifteen people attended the meeting, ten of whom were CHUL members...
...SIZEMORE in 55 and in 1974 is talking about emigrating to Canada. His two oldest boys did--one with the fifteen-year-old girl he'd just eloped with, the other not long after he'd been arrested in a 1967 Pentagon demonstration. Dan has a daughter who studies sociology in college, and another who does yoga every night before she goes to bed. Three other sons were kicked out of school for wearing their hair too long--Dan and his wife Margaret went to the ACLU and got it all fixed up. Margaret is getting a college degree. Walk...
...alone. "Nobody brainwashed him; nobody forced him into it. Certainly peer pressure had nothing to do with it." So up in his hollow Dan Sizemore read books, decided he was against the profit system, and prepared to keep his belt on when his kids began to sprout their locks. Fifteen years later the neighbors still hate the guy, and especially when they see out-of-state license plates (the people who bring him Philip Roth books?) flash by on the way up to his house. Who knows what goes on up there? A man in the shack next door...
Harvard's one moments of glory occurred in the first fifteen minutes of action, when the Crimson was able to keep pace and managed to forge a 24-24 deadlock. Then, for one of those strange reasons that only basketball coaches are able to explain, Mike Griffin, the lone Harvard performer who knows the meaning of offensive penetration, was pulled from the game...