Word: feeblemindedness
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"I am the mother," began the ad in a Manhattan newspaper, "of a gentle and lovable child whom the doctors term hopelessly feebleminded. My son is without playmates, without education of any kind. Surely there must be other parents like myself. Where are you? Let's band together and...
Each year some 120,000 mentally retarded children are born in the U.S., the victims of brain injury, prenatal diseases in the mother, or other causes not fully understood. In all the U.S. there are only about 20 centers, such as the pioneering clinic at Manhattan's Flower-Fifth...
While Nancy is bewilderingly facing up to the truth, little Patty is coolly taking the measure of another victim, a feebleminded janitor (Henry Jones), who thinks he is teasing the child in blaming her for her classmate's death. Probably the most chilling moment is when Jones discovers -too...
In contrast with this intelligent treatment of the feebleminded is Robert Fisher's stale catalogue of bullfight lore. Fisher's use of a banal subject--the discovery of dedication, and death, in a bullfight--would be bad enough if the story were well-handled. But the author seems to have...
John, 21, suffered from a childhood predilection for wringing the necks of chickens. Last year when two little Bath girls were found strangled, John, who had already been certified as feebleminded, was declared mentally unfit to stand trial and committed to Broadmoor. There, he behaved so well that he was...