Word: havens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Psychiatrist Samuel Klagsbrun, 36, believes that the atmosphere in a death ward can be made at least reasonably tolerable. He tested his thesis in a 21-year demonstration project at Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, where he was consulting psychiatrist in a small cancer-research unit filled with terminal cases. When he arrived, he found the morale of both staff and patients abysmal. The doctors and nurses considered the patients "walking dead"; the patients grumbled constantly about "uncaring" doctors, "unavailable" nurses, and experimental drugs that they thought were being used on them as if they were guinea pigs...
Interviewer: Don't you ever wake up in the middle of the night and realize you haven't done anything that is really artistic...
...Place is gone and so is the Yard of Ale. Restaurants are still lousy. But on the whole things haven't really changed that much at least physically. The kids, though, they're something else. The long hair and the bare feet. It hurts Harvard's image. Besides, it's just plain unsanitary...
...flashes of anger in other reporters anxious to defend the press. At one dinner Look's George Leonard, author of numerous sympathetic studies of the ghetto, finally exploded at accusations: "Goddammit, that isn't true. The press has told it like it is time and again. Why haven't you read my stories?" He banged his fist on the table. One black tried to soothe him: "There's no use you getting frustrated, too. After all, our survival is involved." Immediately, another yelled: "No, goddammit, I've been frustrated all my life. Why shouldn...
...food stamps being "more trouble than they're worth," most of us have to exert ourselves to some extent to get food for our tables-some of us even have jobs. The biggest mistake the Government could make would be to discontinue the stamps and disburse cash. Haven't we learned by this time that the majority of these people don't have the background or the desire to spend their money for necessities first and luxuries second...