Word: asylums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...successful centrist and demanded to buy whatever he was selling-life insurance policies, even neckties. But the young man felt a certain hollowness at the center of his life, and so he set out to find Dr. Modesto. At the very center of the U.S., he found an insane asylum, and as he approached it, he saw other gray-suited centrists streaming toward it from all directions; and in the central cell of the asylum, he finally saw the mad figure of Dr. Modesto, who cried out: "Let my sons...
...LUNATICS are running the asylum these days, and lunacy is its own reward, sanity the only true crime. In Only Victims Robert Vaughn has compiled a history of the oldest permanent floating pogrom in America--the show business witchhunt...
Nkrumah's despotic ruling style aroused so much resentment that after a coup in 1966 he had to flee to Guinea for asylum. When it became apparent last month that he was near death after a long bout with cancer, Guinea's President Sekou Toure pleaded with the Ghana government to let the deposed leader come home to die. Most sentimental Ghanaians seemed willing, but the country's military rulers remained adamant. Only after his death did they relent and order flags lowered to half-mast before burying Nkrumah in his homeland...
...condemn the Liao incident shed light on the reasons for her cancellation. In the notes of February 4 and 19, the Chinese went out of their way to emphasize displeasure with Washington's treatment of the Liao affair rather than the mere fact that he had been granted diplomatic asylum. The first sentence of the February 4 note objected to the State Department's "brazenly" announcing the defection, while the second note said that the U.S.'s plotting "to send Liao Ho-shu to Taiwan with a view to creating further anti-China incidents" merits "particular" attention. The Chinese appeared...
...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, adapted from Ken Kesey's novel, a woman is used as the symbolic agent of a vindictively oppressive social system. The autocratic nurse who orders the rebel hero of the asylum lobotomized is intellectually presented as conformity's tool in crushing individualists. The emotional line of the play, however, suggests that the hero's real crime is machismo. He is, in effect, being castrated by a neurotic, sex-starved spinster in an acute fit of penis envy...