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...George Steiner indicates in this little antidote to Reykjavik's hyperbolic summer of '72, "may well be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. Bobby Fischer's assertion that it is 'everything' is merely necessary monomania. As for the maniac: "A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise. Almost inevitably, this focus produces pathological symptoms of nervous stress and unreality...
They were like people doing what they could to stop a thug from beating up an old lady, risking injury to the thug or some innocent passerby in the fracas. Or like a policeman pursuing a homicidal maniac at 100 miles per hour, knowing the chase could end in an accident dangerous to unknowing uninvolved pedestrians. Or like a mechanic inserting a wrench into the gears of an airplane loaded with bombs, aware that he and the bombadier and the pilot might die so that the innocent children the bombs would have killed could live...
...other ways, though, Kissinger has changed considerably. He has developed a wry sense of Galgenhumor, of which he is the chief victim. After being attacked by another Administration official as an "egotistical maniac," he remarked: "It took me 18 years to achieve total animosity at Harvard. In Washington, I did it in 18 months...
...first the local citizenry were determined not to have a "maniac ward" in town, but the Menningers persuaded them to withdraw their opposition and even to underwrite a psychiatric hospital. From this nucleus has grown the present Menninger Clinic, by far the most famous psychiatric hospital in the U.S., which pioneered in research, and was one of the first to set up a juvenile division (the Southard School). It conducts an outpatient service and seminars for businessmen and industrialists as well. Also in Topeka is the Menninger School of Psychiatry, which has trained more mind doctors than any other...
Meanwhile, the United States Congress, never able to deny the executive branch its demands for money to fight in Indochina, has grown restive at the possibility of supplying peaceful aid to North Vietnam. At a time when the domestic budget has been slashed by that maniac Nixon, the opposition of some senators is understandable, but other legislators have demonstrated only their own pettiness and shortsightedness with their complaints of giving aid to a former "enemy...