Word: almost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...questions supplied to keep him going after he had reached the top on his own. It had been as carefully planned from the start as a well-organized stock swindle. He had lied again and again, first indignantly denying all, then thrusting up new lies containing partial admissions. Almost with relish, Van Doren testified that he had been foolish, naive, prideful, avaricious. To the hilt, he was the anguished soul torn by struggles of conscience-and when he finished, there was barely a dry eye among the Congressmen. In an outburst of Senator Claghorn sentimentality, most lauded his "fortitude...
...without even seeing a pilot film. Says Adman Clyne: "Last spring we went over 200 finished pilots and another hundred ideas. We picked 40, put them on the air. Of those 40, we had confidence in only a dozen or so-and right now, I'd almost guarantee that less than ten will be renewed next fall...
...Iron Bars Alone. Says Dr. Hunt: "Our 'humane' practice may be almost as brutalizing and degrading as those of past centuries. It is a rare patient now who suffers cruelties to the flesh, but restraints on the human spirit cannot be measured in terms of iron bars and canvas straps alone. They derive much more importantly from the attitudes of people around the patient. For too long, as Maxwell Jones puts it, we worked on the unconscious belief that 'the role of the patient is to be sick.' If he senses that we expect...
Near to the Norms. Across the U.S., almost a dozen states are experimenting with open doors, from those unlocked only an hour or two a day to those flung wide throughout the daylight hours. In the early '50s, Pennsylvania rejuvenated its Embreeville State Hospital near Philadelphia, opened its doors in mid-1956. Says Dr. Eleanor R. Wright: "We've had fewer escapes than when the doors were locked. It may not be the best system for every hospital, but it works...
...scientific visitors pretty well agreed that Communism's rigid dogmas do not seriously confine Russian scientists. In their laboratories their minds are free, and if they are in an officially favored science, they are almost as free to follow their favorite projects as U.S. scientists are. Said Physicist Robert Erode of the University of California at Berkeley: "People can compartmentalize their minds. The argument that there can be no creative science in a restricted society has not held water." Most U.S. visitors agree that Russian scientists are less restricted by political ideology than by the rigid hierarchies...