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Sir: In TIME, Nov. 23, you state: "In U.S. hospitals, occupational therapy is usually make-work and little better than leaf raking." Correction, please. Make-work may be used in U.S. hospitals when objective is not the product, or service performed, but the effect the activity itself has on the...
To aid flood victims in the French Riviera town of Fréjus (TIME, Dec. 14), Artist Pablo Picasso donated two of his still-life paintings for auctioning in Paris, appealed to all painters to follow suit by giving a canvas for the cause.
Not 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...
High above the Hudson, Army practiced behind canvas-draped fences, and cadets bellowed fight songs that echoed through West Point's stern, grey buildings. At the Air Force Academy 2,000 miles away in Colorado Springs, the cadets whipped themselves up to such a pitch that they swarmed onto...
An unreconstructed individualist, Still pours odium and contempt on his contemporaries, scorns their "witless parodies" and "capering before an expanse of canvas."