Word: sybil
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...1960s to the mid-1970s were the heyday of the crazy-girl book: books by and about young women who lost their minds. Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, Joanne Greenberg's haunting I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Go Ask Alice, Sybil. There were books about crazy boys too, of course, such as Mark Vonnegut's The Eden Express. But that's just boys. Everybody knows they're crazy. There was something disturbingly, voyeuristically hypnotic about those hippie Ophelias--electrode paste on their temples beneath their center-parted hair, Jefferson Airplane on the sound track, psychedelic chaos...
There is a dancing, dazzling siren seductress at the heart of this book and of all books like it, and it is not Sally (or Sybil or Sylvia) but madness itself. When Sally turns manic, it's as if some interstellar alien god is speaking through her, and you hang on to its every word. As a person, you want her to get better, but as a reader, you can't get enough of the crazy. ("Mania is a glutton for attention," says Dr. Lensing, Sally's gifted therapist. "It craves thrills, action, it wants to keep thriving, it will...
...Sybil Hinkle, NAPA, CALIF...
...Sybil Schmidt, NEWNAN...
CRLS, the district's only high school, lost its leader earlier this year when then-principal Sybil N. Knight announced in January that she had accepted a position as assistant superintendent of the school district in Harrisburg, Pa. Cambridge's initial attempt to find a replacement for Knight—a closed search process that lasted nearly four months—failed to generate a candidate with whom the district was satisfied. Early this summer, the district's superintendent, Thomas Fowler-Finn, said Saheed would serve as acting principal...