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Frieda Arkin has found a real, snug little place for herself in northern New York State, name of Kuyper's Dorp. Halfway between the Adirondacks and the Catskills. Or-if you prefer to chart it on another map-halfway between the delicate perceptions of Our Town and the guff of Peyton Place...
...Halfway House. Appearing on television, Chichester-Clark denounced "sinister elements - anarchists and others" for starting the fighting. Two days later, voicing the deep Protestant suspicion that any British help would lead to a loss of majority control, he warned Parliament: "Those who cry so loudly for British intervention see it as a halfway house to the long-sought goal of an Irish Republic...
...says. "The artist has to have vulnerability, open up his feelings, and find a loving commitment." Though Diebenkorn and Natkin belong to no school and live and work on opposite sides of the continent, their similar approaches to painting have brought them both to a kind of stylistic halfway house between representationalism on the one hand and formal geometry on the other. Both are romantic abstractionists who have preserved on canvas a sense of place and object without the aid of recognizable images...
Most of the original Anna State patients increased their ability to work usefully within the ward; 21 of them have been discharged and are in "halfway houses," being cared for by their families or living on their own. For them, no tokens are required. Says Azrin: "The natural satisfactions of this world take over. The jobs the patients do and the friends they make keep it going...
Comparable rescue rates have been recorded in most of the 50-odd other U.S. institutions that are now using reinforcement technique. In the not too distant future, Azrin believes, "virtually all state mental-hospital patients can be discharged into sheltered halfway-house care." Reinforcement therapy has also been used with apparent success to treat alcoholics, autistic children and even unhappily married couples. Leonard Krasner, a pioneering reinforcement therapist at the State University of New York's Stony Brook campus, predicts that "within ten or fifteen years, many of the present techniques of psychotherapy will generally be acknowledged...