Word: sane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back in the outside world feeling sane but "sadder" and "quieter," Estroff has vowed to keep studying the plight of deinstitutionalized mental patients, as well as that of the struggling psychiatric workers. But only under one condition. Says she: "I will not do this type of field work alone again...
...Ph.D. To a tiny minority of these people, Rockwell was a kitsch factory, turning out relentlessly sentimental icons of mid-cult virtue?family, kids, dogs and chickens, apple pie, Main Street and the flag?in the corniest of retardataire styles. But to most of them, Rockwell was a master: sane (unlike Van Gogh), comprehensible (unlike Picasso), modest (unlike Dali), and perfectly attuned to what they wanted in a picture...
BROWN AT HARVARD--Brown has the best team in New England. Brown has the best offensive lineman in the Ivies. Any sane bookmaker wouldn't take a bet on Harvard. I'm not sane, and I'm not a bookmaker. Harvard 45, Brown 26, and who says history doesn't repeat itself...
...discernable, of course, but they are undermined by all the dancing, singing, and general frolic on stage. When Alan Bates shed his clothes and stood at the asylum gates at the close of the film, it was clear that he was rejecting the crazy world outside for the sane world of the crazies. When Johnny runs into the bin at the end of the musical, well, it's just as easy, given the build-up, to assume that he's going in there because his buddies are there, the people who've been nicer to him than anybody else...
...really crazy? The bestial Soviet state, obviously, and a system that officially turns the sane into the insane and pretends that its own insanity is rea son itself. As slyly as if he were pulling a rabbit from his hat, Stoppard has written a play as propaganda, and its anti-Soviet message is all the more effective for its wit and humor. Andre Previn's music, which he himself conducted, is equally witty. Hinting at Prokofiev and Shostakovich, Previn underlines Stoppard's words and adds his own notes of satire. When Alexander, for instance, says that confinement will...