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...Denounced a report that he had been treated for a year by a New York City psychotherapist. "The truth is," he said, "I am disgustingly sane...
Long ago, in the sane dull Washington of 1958, Journalist Allen Drury wrote his first novel-the one for which he is remembered-Advise and Consent. That was a blowsy, likable, jump-all-over-you book, about a Senate battle against confirmation of a Secretary of State; about a band of stalwart lawmakers, including one Senator being blackmailed for homosexuality; about a society hostess, and so on. It made a great read. It won Drury the Pulitzer Prize, which he even perhaps deserved: he had had the energy to people a big novel with a lot of boldly drawn characters...
...promising satirical subject in the psychiatric setting of What the Butler Saw is the question of who is sane and who is insane. Yet even this is rarely treated above the superficial level. To be sure, the two psychiatrists do compulsively attempt to classify each character as mad, but their attempts are so continuous and so blatant that the humor emerges as tired while the satire is so overdone that it becomes irrelevant...
...recorder. Those standbys of nostalgia, Gerald and Sara Murphy, crossed her path, but she merely remarks that they were perhaps "not as bonny or without troubles with each other" as they are usually depicted. Edmund Wilson appears, not as a mighty mind but as a comfortable pal who said sane things. Dorothy Parker was a close if infuriating friend. In 1937 she and Lillian traveled to Paris together. Parker was invited by the rich and famous to "tennis she didn't play and pools she didn't swim in." She thought, says Hellman sharply, "that nobody could...
Then the war ended, and with it with immediate chances for a successful activist upsurge. No sane person, of course, would exchange a resumption of the genocide in Vietnam for the increased prospects it would mean for Harvard activism. Still, no new formula for unity was found to replace the old one. NAM sputtered about, groping for a new basis for the old alliance...