Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Irritating as De Gaulle's lordly disregard of alliance by committee might be, his partners were in no position to make the familiar argument from fear. The idea that everyone must rush to the summit lest Nikita Khrushchev grow impatient and the "momentum" of East-West efforts for peace be lost was less forceful when Khrushchev himself seems to be in no hurry for a summit. The French offered him two dates for his pre-summit visit to Paris-Feb. 20 or mid-March. Khrushchev chose the later date, blandly explaining from wintry Moscow that the weather in Paris...
...also unanimously agreed that any exchange of visits should be limited to "heads of state, to avoid the possibility that Khrushchev could reciprocate by coming to Italy." Russia's aging figurehead. President Kliment Voroshilov, might be acceptable in the Holy City, but not Khrushchev. Reason: many Italians fear the impact of Khrushchev on a land with the biggest Communist party outside the Iron Curtain...
...hospital for ten years, did not know what to make of it. One man had devoted most of his waking hours during 20 locked-up years to testing every door on his ward, trying to get out: when he found them all unlocked, he refused to leave, for fear that he would not be able to get in again. It took him two weeks to get used to the return of freedom...
...desocialization and dehumanization of the patients. On admission to most hospitals, they were stripped of their own clothes, allowed only shapeless, unbelted robes and floppy slippers. Wristwatches were locked up (the crystals might be broken and used in suicide attempts). Eyeglasses were removed at night because of the same fear. Even wedding bands were sometimes taken away (the patients might swallow them or drop them down the toilets). Men could not shave themselves. Bathrooms were locked, and patients could not go to them unattended. Knives and forks were banned from the dining halls, so patients had to eat with spoons...
Locked Out. Private hospitals are generally even more reluctant than the states to unlock doors, for fear of damaging incidents and lawsuits. Yet in San Francisco, at the opposite extreme in size from the giant state hospitals, a tiny (14-bed) unit at Stanford Hospital* applies the open-door system with outstanding success. "When we speak of patients as being 'locked up," says the psychiatrist in charge, Dr. Anthony J. Errichetti Jr., "what we really mean is 'locked out'-we are using lock and key to exclude them from society. When we used to put a patient...