Word: asylums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is one bit of novelty in Every Man. The actor who plays Kaspar Hauser, the lead role, is billed only as "Bruno S." "S." was plucked by Director Herzog from an asylum be cause his own case history paralleled the Hauser story so closely. Such a stroke of casting is consistent with Herzog's previous work, which includes a film entirely populated by dwarfs. These works were also defended as metaphors for modern Germany. Some fresh excuses are needed...
...Leonardo da Vinci and Sandy Koufax, Stengel adjusted. He signed on at $75 a month with the Kankakee, Ill., club and immediately became the clown prince of the bush leagues. Running to his position, the outfielder liked to practice sliding into home plate en route. "There was a lunatic asylum across from the centerfield fence," he remembered. "My manager used to point there and say, 'It's only a matter of time, Stengel.' " But Casey had a farther destination...
...writing those children's books and I got a job at the Yale Radio Station. (My husband is a professor at Yale and I have two daughters there.) I did a program on mental health in a New Haven asylum where they were using a milieu therapy, which was totally new at the time. I thought it was a terrific program but the director didn't like it and it was never used." So Scarf received the asylum director's permission to write an article--even though she had written only one article before, for Yale Magazine--and subsequently spent...
...occupied palace, which was soon surrounded by troops of the loyal Vencedores battalion. By 4 in the afternoon it was all over. The rebel troops surrendered, but in the confusion, Gonzalez−dressed in civilian clothes−somehow managed to walk out of the palace unnoticed and gain asylum in the Chilean embassy nearby...
...infancy. His second marriage, to Lottie Stokes, seemed perfect, and Lottie stood by him as he exhausted himself and his money trying to get Treemonisha produced. The only way he could get it published was to do it himself. Burned out at 48, Joplin died in 1917 in an asylum from complications of syphilis...