Word: sani
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insanity plea, said the court, "is neither an express nor an implied ad mission of present illness, and acquittal rests only on a reasonable doubt of sani ty at the time of the offense. It is true that persons acquitted by reason of in sanity have committed criminal acts and that this fact may tend to show that they meet the requirements for commitment, namely illness and dangerousness. But it does not justify total abandonment of the procedures used in civil commitment proceedings to determine whether these same requirements have been satisfied...
...state, enhances the characters' sense of the wonder of life, and gives a love affair the tang of teary urgency. Lillian and Clerfayte, the leading characters of his latest novel, have that kind of tangy affair. Lillian is a 24-year-old tuberculous patient in a Swiss Alpine sani-torium, and her X rays give her a possible year to live; Clerfayte is a middle-aging (40) racing driver with an addiction to danger and drink...