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...felt sane, yet knew I wasn't. I seemed to wake up to a new world-my life, my mental state had been altered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Artificial Psychoses | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...mentally disturbed young woman. Her sensitive countenance reveals the changing moods of a deranged mind. The light and dark spreading across her face when a nagging word aggravates the unbalanced mind is very effective; she loses, and then regains, at a moment's notice the inhibitions of the sane...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: The Snake Pit | 12/6/1955 | See Source »

Soon you'll both be wondering whether this is the "right person" whether for such mixed up minds anybody could be the "right one;" whether perhaps romance is hokum and anybody could be the "right one;" whether today's confused Youth can make sane decisions about the appropriateness of love, of sex, of marriage (pause for breath); whether all this decision stuff isn't negation of the basically inspirational quality of the Perfect Love; or whether maybe sex isn't everything but it's a hell of a lot easier than all this stuff; and so on around again...

Author: By David Royce, | Title: Sex and Society: Coming of Age at Harvard | 10/8/1955 | See Source »

...ruin of Dr. Charles Boyer, titular head of the clinic, disrupts the budding romance between Widmark and Bacall, drives most of the inmates into an all-night binge, and sends hysterical John Kerr off to the river, bent on suicide. By this time, moviegoers have difficulty distinguishing the sane from the unbalanced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 25, 1955 | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

...thousand new readers a week are putting their armchairs around Auntie Mame and finding her neither safe nor sane, merely sidesplitting. Auntie Mame is a screwball who has to be seen or read to be disbelieved. She is a coupon-clipping Pearl White hanging on the dizzy cliff edge of her every enthusiasm. She is a roaring Life Drive without a muffler, and the most commanding prose female since Philip Wylie dreamed up "Mom." Around her and her nephew Pat Author Dennis has fashioned a frothy drawing-room comedy spiked with smoking-room raffishness and powder-room chitchat. The little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited, Jul. 4, 1955 | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

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