Word: huntly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robert C. Hunt, born in Egypt of U.S. missionary parents, was assistant commissioner in New York's department of mental hygiene in 1955 when he went to Europe and first saw open hospitals, including Mapperley. Says Dr. Hunt now: "I saw and was converted. It was like scales dropping off my eyes." In 1957 he became director of Hudson River State Hospital on the edge of Poughkeepsie, 80 miles north of New York City. Of its nearly 6,000 patients, only 16% were then in open wards...
...Iron Bars Alone. Says Dr. Hunt: "Our 'humane' practice may be almost as brutalizing and degrading as those of past centuries. It is a rare patient now who suffers cruelties to the flesh, but restraints on the human spirit cannot be measured in terms of iron bars and canvas straps alone. They derive much more importantly from the attitudes of people around the patient. For too long, as Maxwell Jones puts it, we worked on the unconscious belief that 'the role of the patient is to be sick.' If he senses that we expect...
...them) regard the body as "needed for the reproduction of Friends," and Hindus, who. Author Berry suggests, recoil in shock at the sight of a naked hide but manage nevertheless to be thoroughly friendly. In the end. as Peter stalks the python, Berry's account of the hunt entwines the reader like a jungle creeper. The death of the book's villain is a grisly reminder that horror is comedy's blood brother. "Man," one character is moved to reflect, "might be an idea in the Divine Mind, but he was not a fixed idea...
Hanfmann was not going to prepare a "treasure hunt," however. "Due to rising nationlism, almost all the young Near Eastern countries rich in as yet unexplored cultural objects do not allow foreign excavators to export their resources. The days of booty grabbing are over. We have returned to Sardis to find new areas for the building of history. It has been undertaken in the interests of scholarship alone...
...heirs of the great J. P. Morgan chase a widow around Europe and hunt down theater tickets? See BUSINESS, The Big Banker...