Word: sanitarium
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...good deal of the trouble in The Cobweb is readymade, since the setting is a Midwest psychiatric sanitarium called the Castle House Clinic for Nervous Disorders. But Head Psychoanalyst Stewart McIver, his wife and his staff spin some extra strands of personal disaster that make the patients seem sane and well adjusted...
Stewart McIver is fortyish and lean, with grey, close-cropped hair, "a lincolnesque man." and he has a throbbing devotion to his job. In jostling harness with a handsome lush named Devereaux, who is the official director of the sanitarium, McIver runs Castle House on a progressive principle, i.e., that patients must have responsibility if they are to show any. He finds it harder to apply this principle in his private life. At 39, his wife Karen is as fresh, and as false, as counterfeit money. A blonde china-doll type, she nurses a badly nicked ego because McIver...
...Stevie is also a pet project of a thirtyish war widow on McIver's staff who sees eye to eye with him on therapeutic methods. Together with the "patients' governing committee," McIver and the widow concoct a plan for Stevie to design new draperies for the sanitarium living room. Unknown to McIver, both Karen and the sanitarium's old biddy of a business manager have ordered separate sets of draperies on their...
...pulled through--but during his convalescence, he heard of the death in Korea of a close high school friend. "That boy who was born in this country had a right to the freedom I enjoyed," he said. "If he could fight, why shouldn't I? Upon release from the sanitarium, Ponte tried desperately to enlist in the army. But he was classified 4F. He tried to join the ROTC, and again was rejected...
...over South Africa, good, churchgoing Boers goggled at these revelations of Liberal wickedness, and cried Skande (a scandal). The respectable anti-Malanites were also scandalized. Cried the Rand Daily Mail: "South Africa is not yet ready for Liberalism." Before returning to Natal, where he works in a tuberculosis sanitarium for Zulus, Alan Paton had a parting word: "He who waits until the time is ripe often waits until it is rotten...