Word: sanitariums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Right You Are and the other plays in which Pirandello presents many kinds of acute mental aberration all take on in added dimension when one recalls that Pirandello's own wife went insane. Advised not to commit her to a sanitarium, he patiently and resignedly stayed home and pampered her, to no avail. For years, day after day, he wrote while she founded violently on his studio door, screamed threats, and huried accusations of infidelity. She also turned on her daughter, who then tried to commit suicide. Such a household would have destroyed a lesser...
...gentle and cultivated man when rational, King Talal at 43 was forced to abdicate in 1952. "Please thank the government," he said when told the news, and then quietly removed himself to a sanitarium near Istanbul, where he now lives...