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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...February, the Medical School faculty voted to suspend the school's involvement in the planning of a new Iranian Health Center with Columbia and Cornell Medical schools. The reasons for the suspension of involvement remain unclear...
...SMALL GERMAN town at the beginning of the last century, a simple soldier, abused by his superiors and mocked by his fellows, suspects his mistress of infidelity and stabs her to death. The act is undeniably tragic, even fated, yet the soldier's motives remain unclear. Is the murder an act of passion, the frenzy of a man going mad, or an understandable reaction to a social degradation that has become unbearable...
...script, a pair of mute, apparently insane figures who remain onstage on a raised wooden platform throughout the play. Whether these two silent figures, clutching at the empty air, represent Woyzeck's deteriorating mental state or whether they are intended as symbols of an extreme form of victimization remains unclear...
...effect is one of aimlessness. Though the book is divided into four parts--"Origins," "Growing Up", "Coming Apart", "Where We Are Now"--their intent is garbled, and it is completely unclear whether the progression is intended to be a historical survey of madness up through our time, or a portrait of the individual's slide into insanity. He discusses the great madmen of the past, both historical and literary, in the same breath as incidents and personages of contemporary madness. Interspersed with this plethora of examples are the case histories of six individuals whom society at one time deemed insane...
...also unclear exactly how the psychological stuff fits in to Johnson's later career, which I gather it's supposed to do. There's a longish section on Johnson's first love affair that is no doubt new information, but leads nowhere and connects to nothing. At times, later on, Kearns tries very hard to fit her early findings into Johnson's adult life--his policies showing, a desire for love, and so on--but by then the connections seem forced and unimportant...