Word: saneness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Faces in the Water, by Janet Frame. A brilliant, largely autobiographical novel about nine long years in a mental institution, done with toot sympathy and warm love for the sane and insane alike...
Like her accomplished New Zealand predecessors, Katherine Mansfield and Sylvia (Spinster) Ashton-Warner, Janet Frame, 36, writes with a cool eye, a detached sympathy, and a warm but un-sloppy love of sane and insane alike. The daughter of a New Zealand railwayman, Author Frame has herself been in and out of mental hospitals as a voluntary patient. Shy and wary of publicity, she has recently changed her name to Janet Clutha (after a New Zealand river). But, under whatever name, her writing is sensitive, and her evocation of madness unforgettable...
...forbade foreign shareholders to sell out to South Africans, prohibited South Africans from buying stock abroad. Since no sane foreign investor is likely to risk his money in the future on such a oneway street, South African industry will now have to rely solely on the nation's already pinched capital market for new funds. The announcement came only two weeks after South Africa had inserted a lavish, 24-page booklet into the Sunday New York Times, advertising its "favorable investment climate" and pointing out the bargains available, since "stocks have reached new highs on every exchange...
...Town Was Mad, one of many titles Dylan Thomas fastened to sections of his plays for voices, was to concern a pleasantly insane Welsh town in an uncomfortingly sane surrounding world; it was to a sort of lilting, reflective morality play. But by the time he finished a complete draft for the BBC, a month before his death, Thomas had abandoned both idea and plot, and what reflection there is in Under Milk Wood lies hidden in a few lines. Now it is cheery, sometimes touching, and always charming...
...freedom for every U.S. citizen through conservative political philosophy, I am grateful for TIME'S portrayal of the John Birch Society as "wayway right" of the main stream of the current conservative movement in this country. There is a deplorable tendency in some journalistic quarters to lump the "sane" conservatives, represented by Senator Barry Goldwater and William F. Buckley Jr., with an "insane" element, represented by Robert Welch and his "Birch-Barkers...