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Despite the determined assault on their senses of sight and sound, many of the patients seemed not to notice. They were long-term cases of the type once despairingly classified as hopeless. They had withdrawn from the world about them into impenetrable fantasies. Some catatonics stood in statuesque poses, as they had for hours. Others remained curled up, catlike. in a protective ball...
...rhythm is essential to get attention. After contact with the patient has been regained, the doctors can go to work with occupational and recreational therapy. Music itself is no cure, but it has helped so many patients that Dr. Witten says: "We don't talk in terms of hopeless cases; we don't believe there are any." Now 30 of the patients are so far recovered that they turned the tables on the staff, put on their own music program for Christmas...
...recently begun to leak again. Four of the reunionists had symptoms which led to their being promptly hospitalized for observation and possibly further treatment. But the assemblage proved its point: delicate surgery inside the heart is getting safer, and it can bring many a case, once thought hopeless, back to healthy, happy living. The patients at their dinner dance gave their loudest applause to a doctor who introduced Surgeon Bailey with the words: "He has been close to your heart." Then the recovered patients waltzed and jitterbugged...
...charge is false or well-founded. They are fortunate if they can get worthwhile help from family or friends or even from their ministers. One useful thing they can do is to take the boy to a psychiatrist, where, first of all, such cobweb words as "hereditary," "congenital" and "hopeless" should be swept from their minds...
Beyound a Threat-Hope. President Eisenhower did not want to make a threat-even in retaliation-the major theme of his speech. He said that to dwell upon the possibility of atomic war would "be to confirm the hopeless finality of the belief that two atomic colossi are doomed malevolently to eye each other indefinitely across a trembling world...