Word: strangeness
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...thing; the boy is so absorbed in his world that he reaches a level of emotional intensity unavailable to more ordinary men and women. So long as the psychosis remains benign, it is not discovered and poses no problem for anyone; one night, though, the boy, Alan Strang, blinds six of the horses he has been working with at a stable in rural England. The local magistrate, a woman of uncommon compassion but complacent confidence in official definitions of sanity, places him in the hands of a psychiatrist, Martin Dysart. The boy's "cure" is the center of the play...
...playgoers dearly cherish a theatrical hypo, and Broadway desperately needed an Equus. Almost as desperately as did Richard III. Why has this boy done this horrendous thing? The structure of the play is like that of a trial in which the witness and culprit, Alan Strang (Peter Firth), is coaxed, tricked and thundered at by a prosecuting psychiatrist, Martin Dysart (Anthony Hopkins). In a way, Dysart is a physician who cannot heal himself. At the Rokeby Psychiatric Hospital in southern England, he is a skeptical practitioner of Freudian exorcism. He is a devotee of reason yearning for Dionysian revels...
...HALDEMAN ther came, a crew-cutoon, Foks seyd he ran the Whyt Hous lik a Hun. But strang, whan he befor Committee satte, So mild was he as any pussye catte...
ELIZABETH I. STRANG Burbank, Calif...
...degree will provide at least a moratorum, at best a new sense of purpose. The competitive atmosphere of the first year, at Yale as well as at Harvard, may turn some of these students off. In rejecting the quest for riches and even for economic security, this small strang of students I am describing may underestimate how much money it takes to live in the modest way they would like to, even to keep up their record collections. Such a student, when he emerges with an LL.B., may feel that he has a kind of certificate that commits...