Word: asylums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voids and the threat of war-is perhaps the only place where discussion of Hitlerism and the Jews can be conducted any longer; the grim documentaries have become self-defeating by repetition, the outrage exhausted by its own weight. Appropriately, therefore, Adam Resurrected is centered on a flossy insane asylum near the Dead...
...insult scorches," the author explains. The knowledge, the final realization that they were "simply raw material in the most advanced factory of Europe, under a sky inhabited by God in exile, this information drives us crazy. Such humiliation! So we have turned this country into the largest insane asylum on earth...
...DISCOVERY OF THE ASYLUM by David J. Rothman. 376 pages. Little, Brown...
...living in the same house. With the awful logic of the mad, she considers and rejects any amelioration of her condition; she is under a "glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air." Rescued from a suicide attempt, she starts the long process of mental repair in an asylum...
...wounded than they are getting in many of our hospitals. We must, of course, bring home our prisoners from North Viet Nam, though it may not help to treat this as a condition for, instead of a consequence of, peace. We may need to prepare some kind of asylum opportunities for individual South Vietnamese who may feel that they have to leave when the last American troops leave. Meanwhile, it is reckless for American officials to raise the specter of a bloodbath. That could be an argument for staying in Viet Nam forever...