Word: saneness
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...latest trial the interview with Berlowitz was placed in evidence to show that Trapnell was faking. Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Schlam also brought in two psychiatrists to testify that, in their opinion, Trapnell was perfectly sane (he has an IQ of 130). The prosecution had not discovered, however, that one juror, Gertrude Hass, had worked for 30 years as a psychiatric social worker. To Miss Hass's professional eye, apparently, Trapnell's account of how he had faked insanity was itself further evidence of his actual insanity...
...Save the Rosenbergs" Defence Committee. The novel's most persuasive appraisal of the case comes from a "New York Times reporter" who feels that the Isaacsons were probably framed on the A. Bomb secrets case, but must have been guilty of some two-bit local operation which in a sane society would have cost them five-years behind bars. What concerns Doctorow is the cause of the couple's Communism, and the effects of its unexamined nature...
...mezzos) only Marilyn Home might match. Conductor Claudio Abbado not only has opted for a newly cleaned-up version of the score (with spurious arias discarded, and some of Rossini's original instrumentation restored), but has produced a performance totally dedicated to the opera's unceasing wit, sane dramatics and will-o'-the-wisp musical acrobatics...
...living death. All of the characters in this "response to Dostoyevski's The Idiot" are trapped in individual hells, and in the bigger hell of the universe, and when they are forced to test their limits and laugh at them, human strength has a chance to win a sane survival. In morbid party games, in psychic tortures gleefully inflicted and returned, Mann's and Montgomery's cast of depraved and normal 19th century Russians exploit the full resources of their cramped natures, from their inbred manners and movements to their neurotically sharpened perceptions of miniscule events. At times their passions...
...PLOT EXISTS only as an excuse for a commentary on English life. The juxtaposition of ridiculous assertions, pursuit of any sane comment to an absurd extreme, and traditional shots at all symbols of Britannic complacency dominate the play without any competition from attempts at character development or plot conflict. It all manages to be very entertaining, and the actors, in this production deliver their lines quickly enough to build up a perverse momentum that carries the play through all but its most brutal moments...