Word: existant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world no longer throws its mentally sick into snake pits, on the theory, once widely held, that an experience which might drive a sane person out of his mind might drive an insane one back into it. But snake pits still exist. The Shame of the States, a recently published, chillingly factual report on conditions in state mental hospitals (see MEDICINE), reveals horrors in the midst of the world's wealthiest, healthiest country which many Americans may refuse to believe. The large, hidden population of the mentally ill lives amid squalor, dirt and creeping fear, in the solitary confinement...
...raised prices more than justified by increased costs. Therefore, "business should give careful and thoughtful consideration to the inflationary effect of large profits and unreasonably high prices." Although the economy was turning out more than ever, "more and cheaper consumer services" are still needed. "As long as these needs exist, we should not worry about having a 'mature' economy. We still have a frontier to push forward." When it was over, one delegate commented: "This was a damn good speech. I say that, and I'm an old Tory...
...Student Council, but he did not say, as your reporter quotes him, that the Council would otherwise have "domination bof all Key activities." The not-sosly dig at the Council, with which your imaginative reporter credits Genn, implies a conflict between the Key and the Council which does not exist...
...when the club asked permission to investigate, ther owner just said, "Spooks--they dont exist," and refused to talk aboaut it any further...
...original setting to modern times seems go demand that it have either a plot of some universal theme or else a pertinent parallel to the present. The Idler Players obviously felt the latter to be true, which may be so. Counterparts of Mr. Congreve's people certainly do exist today, but the people on the stage at Agassiz are confused and confusing hybrids, standing with one leg in the Seventeenth and one in the Twentieth Century...