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...scientific observer to spend an extended period with a growing new cadre of mental patients: those who have been, In psychiatric jargon, "deinstitutionalized." Now totaling as many as 500,000 across the U.S., these are mental patients who are regarded as sufficiently good risks to be allowed to dwell in the community at large, yet remain under professional care as psychiatric outpatients...
...view, his most important accomplishments were wresting the province of Azerbaijan from Soviet hands after World War II, nationalizing Iranian oil, settling border differences with Iraq, and gaming possession of many of the islands in the Persian Gulf. But he does not think it does any good to dwell on the past...
...Charles danced expertly with the members of his favorite pop group, the Three Degrees. His Highness, of course, was inundated with gifts. Among the most unusual was a front-page column devoted to Charles in the London Sunday Times. Because the prince had once complained that newspapers tend to dwell on things that go wrong, the Times printed nothing but the week's good news. Among the tidings of cheer: 92% of first-class mail was delivered on time, and no banks collapsed. "P.S." added the Times. "The death rate from suicide is going down...
...youth does not dwell on this point, and McEwan never links Jack's pathology to society at large. Preachiness and moralizing would only direct attention away from the immediacy that is the novel's strongest suit. Seen from the inside, the characters are simply beleaguered children trying to cope and, ultimately, failing. Outsiders find their degeneration criminal; the book shows the inadequacy of such a judgment. Aberrant acts fascinate because of their strangeness, and those who perform them are rarely able to make their reasons clear. The Cement Garden suggests that the most terrifying thing about such behavior...
...design London's Waterloo Bridge and the massive Battersea power station, and to rebuild the bomb-gutted House of Commons after World War II. But the cathedral remained his masterpiece, a modern vision of Gothic that is uncluttered and open. "Don't let your eyes dwell on the soaring arches or tracery of windows," he told visitors. "Look at my spaces." Scott, later knighted by King George V, supervised construction for more than half a century. He personally set the last stone on the highest tower pinnacle during World War II. He died...