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Paradoxically, the disdain that is now alienating Yokoi from his countrymen helped keep him alive and sane during his long ordeal in the jungle; both he and Psychiatrist Haruo Kawai, who has examined him since his return, agree on that. In his youth, Yokoi was apparently made to feel inferior. Out of iji (spite), he decided to prove himself superior to everyone else in at least one thing: the capacity to suffer. "I had an extra-tough childhood," Yokoi explains. "So many people were harsh, cruel or downright brutal to me. By sticking to the jungle, I actually sought...
...create a sane life?" "How do I save my soul?" These, Roszak thinks, are the pertinent questions for Arcadian man, cornered by urban-industrial necessities and manipulated by "a vast mandarin establishment of hysterical professional obfuscators...
...Eagleton disclosures: I think this nation would be blessed to have a Vice President who has been sensitive enough to buckle under the pressures of responsible public service today and sane enough to seek treatment voluntarily. There are many national leaders in Washington who should have psychiatric care...
...Time Inc. for $100,000. It exposed the eerie inner world of the full-time loser determined to become "number one" by carrying out fantasies of violence. Though it seemed the handiwork of a madman, the jury took only an hour and 35 minutes to find Bremer sane-on narrow legal grounds-and guilty. In Maryland, to be judged insane a person must be unable to control his criminal behavior or unable to appreciate the criminality of his act. Bremer, as the diary makes clear, was all too well aware of what he was up to. When he was sentenced...
...sound quite sane, but forgetful. Remember: you're no longer living in the real world. Now you are at Harvard...