Word: manic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...psychiatrist, lithium is a fascinating substance, the lightest of all the solid elements. Its compounds have had a discouraging history in medicine. Last week, however, lithium carbonate was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of mental patients in the overexcited mania phase of manic-depressive psychosis...
...compound has won approval, primarily due to the work of Australian Psychiatrist John Frederick Joseph Cade. After 3½ years as a prisoner of war, Cade began to work in a mental hospital at Bundoora, near Melbourne, concentrating on possible biochemical differences be tween the manic and depressive phases of the same patient. Nothing was farther from his mind than lithium, which had been discredited as a hypnotic and again in 1949 as a substitute for table salt. "One can hardly imagine," says Cade, "a less propitious year," especially as the work was being done "by an unknown psychiatrist...
...having long intellectual discussions with fellow expatriate blacks, and his nights in bed with a series of white women who come equipped with all sorts of far-out perversions (sexual and otherwise) that seem guaranteed to strip away all of his carefully prepared defenses. The novel gets progressively more manic as the two worlds begin to collide and intersect and Jiveass finds that even the lies no longer mask the absurdity of his situation or help to give him a sense of who he is or what the hell he is doing...
...Grass certainly does not look like the world's, or Germany's, greatest living novelist, though he may well be both. He has a gruff manner and a Dutch-comic soup-strainer mustache. There is a manic-gypsy look at the corners of his eyes, like that of an elf on a high. His face has been described as the sort that nervous mothers warn children against before they skip off to play in the Black Forest. At charades, he couldn't miss as one of those ambivalent wood cutters that lurk in the background of Grimm fairy tales...
Dellinger's approach is the kind that is needed to bring any type of political change. Rubin's style, manic, egocentric, theatrical in the worst sense of the word, can provide entertainment, but not real change. He is looking for a brilliant, beautiful spark which will come only in fiction...