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Wartime Climate. Yet for those refugees who do arrive, France is proving a cheerless asylum. A year ago. Jean Clement, 62, owned a 600-acre farm in Algeria. Today he is a grocer in Montpellier on the verge of bankruptcy. Complaining that his store is boycotted because he is a pied-noir (European of Algeria), Clement says angrily: "My father was killed at Verdun. I helped liberate France in 1944. I'm as good a Frenchman as anyone in Montpellier, but the animosity of the local population is terrible...
...voices that in their humor are vintage De Vries: "Here you have the bronchi at the point where they empty into the diatribe," his Old World doctor says by way of telling him he has tuberculosis. He leaves the tuberculosis sanitarium to visit his father, now ensconced in an asylum where the carefree staff has diagnosed him a "Nervous Wreck." Horrified, Don packs his father off to a country rest home where he is amazed to meet his old fiancée. He accepts guilt for her troubled mind, and, in the face of dark signs, he marries...
Mark Twain wrote the thing in a letter to his minister. The Reverend Joseph Twichell, pastor of the Asylum Hill Congregational Church of Hartford, Conn. (the "Church of the Holy Speculators," as Twain called it, in honor of the wealth of its worshipers), was very much "one of the boys." Unable to carry over into the Gilded Age the intellectual prestige which Horace Bushnell had lent to the Hartford ministry a generation before, Twichell sought the approval of his congregation through demonstrations of manliness, not of mind. He was a forceful speaker and an exuberant athlete, and whenever the males...
Meanwhile, Kopit is near to finishing a new work, which takes place in the women's and men's wards of "a strange sort of mental hospital," whose inhabitants include a batch of historical personages from different epochs. The play is titled--briefly, for a change--Asylum. Until this reaches the boards, the Phoenix will continue as a profitable asylum...
Rose, suffering from schizophrenia, became convinced that people were trying to poison her, that men were following her. Psychiatrists gave the Williamses two alternatives: commit Rose to an asylum or risk a prefrontal lobotomy, a much-questioned operation. Williams' parents signed the paper for the operation, which left Rose calmed, often lucid, but incapable of recovery. Guilt at his inability to help his sister engulfed Williams, and she still haunts his memory and imagination. Rose is now in a mental hospital in Westchester County, N.Y., and Williams pays upwards of $1,000 a month for her care. When...