Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EVERYBODY knows that "It's a long walk to Dunster House." Dunster is also the smallest and most over-crowded House. Yet, despite these hang-ups, the Dunster Drama Society, the Dunces, the Speakers' Forum, and many special interest tables provide outlets for undergraduate energy in the best Harvard tradition. Thus, the Administration's projected plan to close down the dining hall--the center of most activities--is ironic and perverse...
Even humane prison officials are still generally paying mere lip service to "individualized treatment"-the new ideal of curing each prisoner's hang-ups and converting society's misfits to crime-free lives. In progressive prisons, to be sure, guards are taught to break up the inmate culture by friendly communication; inmates are classified in graded groups, promoted for good conduct and hustled toward pa role. Indeed, the average stay today is 21 months; the average lifer exits in 20 years...
...woes-and then deflating his rationalizations. Nonviolence is enforced by an adult sitting quietly outside the circle; but things get rough, for no boy leaves Highfields until he has proved to both his peers' and the adult's satisfaction that he has mastered his hang-ups enough to attain a very practical goal-avoiding future arrest...
...funny commercial that shows Bonnie, Clyde, C. W. Moss and the in-laws chugging along toward an airport in a 1931 Buick while frantic banjo music gives pace to the scene. Nobody likes to hang around an airport, says an urbane narrator-and so the bandits, every one the spit and image of the movie cast, scurry out of their car and make their way onto a TWA jet, leaving the cops behind...
Gerald Bolton, 35, has been in and out of insane asylums for 19 years. His hang-up is automobiles, and it has brought him a lot of trouble. In fact, in the gentle word of a psychiatrist, he "eloped" from one Washington, D.C., hospital at least three times to be with cars - cars that each time he stole and drove all over the country. In 1965, he was picked up for stealing yet another car. Gerald entered an insanity defense and was acquitted. Immediately after ward he was sent to a hospital for the in sane - as is anyone...