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Perfectly Sane. During the war, Bourin had met Jacqueline ("Kiki") Rousseau* in Germany, where she had done her share of collaborating. For him, it was le grand amour. "Ah, Kiki," he sighed. "It is because of her that I am on trial. They put me in here to get her away from me. For a year she waited, but now she is married...
...women "totally unfit" to be doctors (the first woman was admitted to A.M.A. five years later). The Journal announced itself horrified by the "cigaret-soaked indecencies" of the naughty '90s, and peddled the theory that tight-laced corsets were responsible for gallstones. It launched crusades for a "Safe & Sane" Fourth of July, for white blankets (to show dirt) and separate tooth-brushing basins in Pullman washrooms. But far & away its liveliest campaigns have been Fishbein's terrible-tempered crusades against quacks...
...almost every murder trial, someone raises the question: is the defendant sane? Drs. Cohen & Coffin think it might be easy to tell after a look at the crime itself; if it conforms closely to the psychotic pattern, the murderer is probably insane. If such tests became common, could a sane murderer pass himself off as a crazy man by deliberately mimicking the psychotic pattern? Not likely, think Cohen & Coffin: a murderer in his right mind has a certain hesitancy about carving up his female relatives in the town square at high noon...
...supersonic thresholds of the mind-the point at which the familiar sound-lengths of human life dissolve into inhuman silence. If they pass the barrier of dissolution, they may investigate in uncompetitive privacy the mysteries inaudible to the other minds. If they can recross the sonic sill, alive and sane, they may report what they have experienced to men who, never having known the experience, will never quite understand the report. Franz Kafka ventured across the barrier, reported with an apparent lucidity the cryptographs of silence, and was little understood. "Franz Kafka," wrote Franz Werfel, "was a messenger from above...
...those teenagers, I resent this attitude. TIME'S article described only a small portion of the high-school students, and left out the vast majority who are sane, earnest, and hardworking. . . . More than ever before, today's students are aware of world problems...